I didn't hear a single sound inside this dead–seeming boat.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

When, after the day's excitement, the Trojans had retired to rest, and all was hushed and silent, Sinon, in the dead of night, released the heroes from their voluntary imprisonment.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Each made the other a warning gesture and stood still in the dim light beneath the curtain as if not wishing to leave that seclusion where they three were shut off from all the world.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The common thread linking all six systems is the declaration that no true freedom for man is possible without knowledge of the ultimate Reality.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

"She is scolding Becky," she whispered, as she stood in the darkness.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

They not only think it fair that Freshmen should go through their ordeal unaided, but many have a sweet satisfaction in their distresses, and even busy themselves in obtaining elevations, or, as it is vulgarly termed, in ‘getting RISES out of them.’”— Hints to Freshmen , Oxford, 1843.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

So, as she sat in the door of her castle, she happened to look around and saw Dorothy lying asleep, with her friends all about her.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

" "I mean that a wicked story is got to Weatherbury within this last hour—that—" Liddy came close to her mistress and whispered the remainder of the sentence slowly into her ear, inclining her head as she spoke in the direction of the room where Fanny lay.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

He longed to see the curious table-napkins wrought for Elagabalus, on which were displayed all the dainties and viands that could be wanted for a feast; the mortuary cloth of King Chilperic, with its three hundred golden bees; the fantastic robes that excited the indignation of the Bishop of Pontus, and were figured with "lions, panthers, bears, dogs, forests, rocks, hunters,--all, in fact, that a painter can copy from nature;" and the coat that Charles of Orleans once wore, on the sleeves of which were embroidered the verses of a song beginning "Madame, je suis tout joyeux," the musical accompaniment of the words being wrought in gold thread, and each note, a square shape in those days, formed with four pearls.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

His wife did not linger more than a minute behind him, and she sat in the drawing-room to await Miss Derrick's return; Mumford kept apart in what was called the library.
— from The Paying Guest by George Gissing

After a short search in the direction of Edgware Road, he found a dealer in second-hand furniture, whom he requested to come as soon as possible to the flat on a matter of business.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing

As she sat in the darkness on the front porch of the farmhouse the voices of the two men became indistinct.
— from Poor White: A Novel by Sherwood Anderson

Indeed, most frequently the diver must do his work under water by means of touch only, and when one considers the varied tasks he is called upon to perform, pipe laying, building, drilling holes in rocks and charging them with dynamite in darkness, looking for treasure, recovering dead bodies and sunken cargoes, or inspecting all parts of a wrecked vessel, buried in water a hundred feet deep, it is not to be wondered at that he should be proud of any special skill in this direction with which nature and practice have favored him.
— from The Sea Rovers by Rufus Rockwell Wilson

As she stands in the door of Glyngog, looking down the river, at Llangorren, and through the darkness sees the Court with only one or two windows alight—they but in dim glimmer—she reflects less on how they blazed the night before, with lamps over the lawn, like constellations of stars, than how they will flame hereafter, and ere long—when she herself be the ruling spirit and mistress of the mansion.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

Lincoln was a stumbling student in the domain of eulogy.
— from Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

Bireno, Duke of Zealand, while on a voyage from Holland to his own country, touches on Frisia; and, being smit with love for Olimpia, daughter of the king, carries her off with him; but, in the farther progress of the voyage, he lands on a desert island, and, while Olimpia is asleep, he leaves her, and sets sail in the darkness of night.
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

I quote here and there, from the Sussex Archæological Society's [Pg 212] extracts, by way of illustrating the life of a Sussex squire in those days, 1683-1714:— 1705.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

They were surrounded by an intelligent and interesting family; and a stranger, in taking a passing view of their home and its surroundings, would have been strongly inclined to think that happiness and contentment might be found beneath their roof; but a short sojourn in the dwelling alluded to, would certainly have dispelled the illusion.
— from The Path of Duty, and Other Stories by Harriet S. Caswell