The little robber-girl was about the same size as Gerda, but stronger; she had broader shoulders and a darker skin; her eyes were quite black, and she had a mournful look.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

But all seemed humble and meek and not a word was said of danger, either to life or money.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Nagkaswáing ang mga magsúun tungud sa kabílin, The brothers and sisters had a misunderstanding over the inheritance.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Her brother, a Captain in the navy, had left her a fortune of ten thousand pounds; about a third of which she had laid out in building a stately house, and making a handsome garden, in an elevated situation in Lichfield.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Judge Blount ably seconded him, and Martin, whose ears had pricked at the first mention of the philosopher’s name, listened to the judge enunciate a grave and complacent diatribe against Spencer.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

But the fainter glimmering of the stars, and the pale light in the sky where the day was coming, reassured me: and my eyes being very heavy, I lay down again and slept—though with a knowledge in my sleep that it was cold—until the warm beams of the sun, and the ringing of the getting-up bell at Salem House, awoke me.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

She was often seized upon by Aunt Sarah, however, and made to sit down to sew patchwork.
— from The Corner House Girls Growing Up What Happened First, What Came Next. And How It Ended by Grace Brooks Hill

That faith is true that when the chilling blasts Of final dissolution overwhelm Life's fragile bark, and shiver hull and masts, Sees but the hand of Love upon the helm.
— from The Passing of the Storm, and Other Poems by Alfred Castner King

As they grew up, Esau became a skilful hunter, a man who lived out in the fields; but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed about the tents.
— from The Children's Bible by Henry A. Sherman

Why, that Ruth Atheson is not Ruth Atheson." "Then who is she?" Saunders drew a deep breath, and stared hard at Mark for what seemed a long time to both.
— from Charred Wood by Kelley, Francis Clement, Bp.

There was nothing for me but to take up the pitcher in a kind of gruff, shy silence, and carry it over the bridge as she had asked me.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. II, No. X., March 1851 by Various

It must be remembered, however, that the foreclosure by the Government of its claim on the assets of the national banks would cut into the wealth on which deposits are based and so have a most disastrous effect on the deposit system.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

Arabella indeed had been in such a terrible consternation, that it was some time before she even reconciled appearances to herself; but, as she had a most happy facility in accommodating every incident to her own wishes and conceptions, she examined this matter so many different ways, drew so many conclusions, and fancied so many mysteries in the most indifferent actions of the supposed noble unknown, that she remained, at last, more than ever confirmed in the opinion that he was some great personage, whom her beauty had forced to assume an appearance unworthy of himself: when Lucy, no longer able to keep silence, drew off her attention from those pleasing images, by speaking of the carp-stealing affair again.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox