May everlasting shame consume The memory of those who tried To befoul and smear the exalted name Of one who spurned them in his pride.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

"Thither they would go," he said, "when the April winds were blowing, and should the experiment not succeed, he would love and cherish her all the more.
— from Cousin Maude by Mary Jane Holmes

His lips were folded on each other so closely, that Patience watched them curiously at table: when eating they merely moved apart as if regulated by a spring; their expression never changed.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The boy was so much bigger and stronger than either Ned or his companion that the former, although indignant at this interference, did not deem it prudent to attempt to climb the crag, so he said to Tompkins: “Of course we ain't going back, but we had better take a turn so as to get out of the way of this fellow.”
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He had the appearance of being asleep, save that every now and again the fingers pressing his brow pressed harder or were momentarily relaxed; he made no other movement: for fully half an hour he had not altered his pose.
— from The Bigamist by F. E. Mills (Florence Ethel Mills) Young

But while the Caribs had their cradle in Central Brazil and migrated northwards, the Arawaks would appear to have originated in eastern Bolivia, and spread thence east, north-east and south-east along the Amazons and Orinoco and into the Paraguay basin [950] .
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

Nothing could well resemble less a typical English street than the interminable avenue, rich in incongruities, through which our two travelers advanced—looking out on each side of them at the comfortable animation of the sidewalks, the high-colored, heterogeneous architecture, the huge white marble facades glittering in the strong, crude light, and bedizened with gilded lettering, the multifarious awnings, banners, and streamers, the extraordinary number of omnibuses, horsecars, and other democratic vehicles, the vendors of cooling fluids, the white trousers and big straw hats of the policemen, the tripping gait of the modish young persons on the pavement, the general brightness, newness, juvenility, both of people and things.
— from An International Episode by Henry James

The birds are said to exist near the sea-coast; but it is certain that any one may walk over inland country for years without seeing one.
— from The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies