None had such lovely trees standing around, or was so covered with trailing clematis and sweet woodbine; none had such good beer and such humming ale; nor, in wintertime, when the north wind howled and snow drifted around the hedges, was there to be found, elsewhere, such a roaring fire as blazed upon the hearth of the Blue Boar.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Since the time when her daughter had gone away with her husband much water had flowed into the sea, the old people had lived feeling bereaved, and sighed heavily at night as though they had buried their daughter.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

So to the office, where all the morning busy, and so home at noon to dinner with my people, where Mr. Hollier come and dined with me, and it is still mighty pleasant to hear him talk of Rome and the Pope, with what hearty zeal and hatred he talks against him.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A letter a cold sleeve a blanket a shaving house and nearly the best and regular window.
— from Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms by Gertrude Stein

Instead, therefore, of starting off to look for a tree to make a canoe as we had intended, we all repaired to the fire which Tom had been blowing into a blaze, and soon had a number of wildfowl roasting before it.
— from The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa by William Henry Giles Kingston

Byfield I observed, because I had heard of him before, and seen his advertisements, not at all because I was disposed to feel interest in the man.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

Windows, in our sense, do not exist in the houses of the villagers; ... but the walls, built of roughly broken stones and mud, are easily, and by a skilled hand almost noiselessly, penetrated.
— from The Threshold Covenant; or, The Beginning of Religious Rites by H. Clay (Henry Clay) Trumbull

It is built of brick and stuccoed, having a neat tiled roof.
— from Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat In the U. S. Sloop-of-war Peacock, David Geisinger, Commander, During the Years 1832-3-4 by Edmund Roberts

"You are sure there can be no danger of infection?" asked Ringfield, with an anxious glance at Pauline, who had raced to her room, stuck imitation solitaires in her ears, donned a worn-out but well-fitting seal jacket and muff and a dashing black and scarlet hat, and now stood in the village street—the embodiment of piquant French womanhood—quite conscious of her charms and insufferably weary of having no audience to show them off to!
— from Ringfield: A Novel by S. Frances (Susie Frances) Harrison

Retrospect If we now look back upon all the problems it has been sought to solve in this chapter, the impression may be a somewhat heterogeneous and negative one; the majority will doubtless be struck at the outset by the multiplicity of the paths, and by the intercrossing due to this multiplicity.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

It was indeed but a simple home and not to be named with ours—the Schopperhof—for greatness or for riches; but it was a snug nest, and in divers ways so unlike ever another that it was full of pleasures for a child.
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

Some were idiots from their birth, and so have acquired no evil propensities of which to be divested.
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

“My cousin,” said Anna to us, and added briefly and significantly: “He asks no questions.”
— from The Pride of Jennico: Being a Memoir of Captain Basil Jennico by Egerton Castle

just at that moment the head of the ghost appeared rising through the trap-door, and looked round, then, as if aware of her presence, drew back, and she heard a noise as if it had jumped down on the earth beneath.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 by Wilhelm Meinhold