She was pale and lifeless; they laid her in the boat, and rowed as quickly as possible to the shore.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The indicative is used in simple declarations or descriptions introduced by a relative: as, quem dī dīligunt, adulēscēns moritur , Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

First come clamors, the shops are closed, the displays of the merchants disappear; then come isolated shots; people flee; blows from gun-stocks beat against portes-cochères, servants can be heard laughing in the courtyards of houses and saying: “There’s going to be a row!” A quarter of an hour had not elapsed when this is what was taking place at twenty different spots in Paris at once.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Another beekeeper who has studied the life of the hive more closely says that the bee gathers pollen dust to feed the young bees and rear a queen, and that it exists to perpetuate its race.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And to-day Bulgaria and Russia are quits.
— from Ferdinand of Bulgaria: The Amazing Career of a Shoddy Czar by Anonymous

And at the same moment two warriors sprang up behind a rock and quick as lightning hurled their casting assegais—not at their human enemies, but at the mule team.
— from In the Whirl of the Rising by Bertram Mitford

At a certain theatre, where an eminent brother of the craft, to whom I take off my hat"—he had no hat to take off, but he went through the necessary action—"has the ear of the public, and a following which is simply amazing to contemplate—at that theatre, I grant you, the poetical drama can be produced with great results; and also at one other temple of the drama, where a lady, admired and loved by all, reigns as queen; but produced elsewhere, it is risky, very.
— from Miser Farebrother: A Novel (vol. 1 of 3) by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

The next day Edwin and Myrna were sent out to the Randolph Bartletts', and Rose and Quin cleared the decks for the hard fight ahead.
— from Quin by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

The dealers at Billingsgate must in those early days have been as rich, and quite as exclusive and privileged, as are their successors of this latter part of the nineteenth century, for it is recorded how, when the news was brought to London of the victory which Edward I. had obtained over the Scots,
— from Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea. Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial by Various

Lisa choked back a laugh on encountering Angele's wide-open eyes, as the latter returned to her bed, all rosy, and quite delighted at having seen such a sight.
— from Piping Hot! (Pot-Bouille): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

Barbara Blombergh lived peaceably at the convent of Santa Maria la Real for several years; but as regularity and quietness were not her strong point, she became bored, and begged Philip II to move her to some other place.
— from The Story of Don John of Austria by Luis Coloma