Some of the apartments were closed within and without; the shutters were only opened to admit a minute’s air, showing the scared face of a footman, and immediately afterwards the window would be closed, like a gravestone falling on a sepulchre, and the neighbors would say to each other in a low voice, “Will there be another funeral today at the procureur’s house?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

If he had come nearer, he would probably be aware, from the lights flitting to and fro, and the opening and shutting of the outer doors, that all was not right within.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

When, therefore, she discovered that Valancourt was the nephew of a person of so much consequence as Madame Clairval, she became anxious for the connection, since the prospect it afforded of future fortune and distinction for Emily, promised the exaltation she coveted for herself.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The effort here will be confined to presenting such an outline, as being alone fitted to the scope of this work.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

`Now loke that atempre be thy brydel, And, for the beste, ay suffre to the tyde, Or elles al our labour is on ydel; 955 He hasteth wel that wysly can abyde; Be diligent, and trewe, and ay wel hyde.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Lady Helianor le Spencer, Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, sister to Gilbert de Clare, gave sums of money; and so did divers citizens; as Arnald de Tolinea, one hundred pounds; Robert, Baron Lisle, who became a friar there, three hundred pounds; Bartholomew de Almaine, fifty pounds.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The "gente de razón," or aristocracy, wear cloaks of black or dark blue broadcloth, with as much velvet and trimmings as may be; and from this they go down to the blanket of the Indian; the middle classes wearing something like a large table-cloth, with a hole in the middle for the head to go through.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The seaport town of Siphae, in the bay of Crisae, in the Thespian territory, was to be betrayed to them by one party; Chaeronea (a dependency of what was formerly called the Minyan, now the Boeotian, Orchomenus) to be put into their hands by another from that town, whose exiles were very active in the business, hiring men in Peloponnese.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

These horses were bought at, from two, to six and eight dollars apiece, and were held very much as common property.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

On the other hand, it could not be avoided, from the nature of the case, that here and there the appendix also should refer to the text of the work; and the only result of this is, that the appendix, as well as the principal part of the work, must be read twice.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

He had never seen his sister cry before, and felt that he must have been harsh and unkind.
— from In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series by Susan Coolidge

Yesterday, at Brandenburg, a fellow took me aside, who looked as if he had tried the blue beans, [5] and he said to me that from my appearance I must have carried a musket, and, if I liked, he knew of a place for me.
— from In the Year '13: A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Fritz Reuter

It was so sweet to press the living toy to her breast, and feel that a human being existed who did owe, and was to owe, everything to her; whose daily food was drawn from herself; whose little wants could all be satisfied by her; whose little heart would first love her and her only; whose infant tongue would make its first effort in calling her by the sweetest name a woman can hear.
— from Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope

Yet I would have cut them, bit by bit, And fed them, and smiled to see it eat, if that would have saved and nourished it!
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

As I'm a wicked sinner, there is one of them prowling along the bank this very moment, like one of the boys of the garrison skulking behind a fallen tree to get a shot at a squirrel!”
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

Then the world awakened and heard the laughter of the wind and the merry song of the birds and felt the caress of the sun and wise men threw back their shoulders and took deep draughts of the morning air and were happy, too.
— from The Triumph of Virginia Dale by John Francis

"Well, I don't know," answered Nina, "it may be all for the best.
— from Added Upon A Story by Nephi Anderson