The baby had sunk back blissfully replete, and Mrs. Struther softly rose to lay the bottle aside.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

He had seemed to scold her; but there are female hearts which can be better reached and more surely touched by the truth of anger than by the patent falseness of flattery.
— from Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

Its period of just government was over; its imperial power was to fall henceforth into the hands of adventurers, with whom it would be more and more the symbol of force alone, and not of law: henceforth they would seldom even in blood be Roman, and more seldom still in principles.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

Both types have their advantages in use, the biplane being regarded as more stable for certain scouting purposes than the monoplane.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

He could see no sport in an adventure of the kind it suggested, and the possibility that he had been misjudged by both Rossland and Mary Standish sent a flush of anger into his cheeks.
— from The Alaskan by James Oliver Curwood

As the tracks led into the timber, Bart took a last glance backwards, but rain and mist shut out all sight of the hill and his enemies.
— from Bart Stirling's Road to Success; Or, The Young Express Agent by Allen Chapman

We hear of bells being rung and mass sung, but only to indicate a time of day.
— from The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Robert Chambers