As I sat there in that now lonely room; the fire burning low, in that mild stage when, after its first intensity has warmed the air, it then only glows to be looked at; the evening shades and phantoms gathering round the casements, and peering in upon us silent, solitary twain; the storm booming without in solemn swells; I began to be sensible of strange feelings.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

At the same instant Paul, who had been looking at the engine, switched on the spark, touched the starter, and lo!
— from The Auto Boys' Vacation by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

Everything, in fact, that England did in Egypt was wrong in French eyes, and there was a fresh outburst over an arrangement made between Lesseps and the English shipowners with regard to the Suez Canal.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

He knew that when savages intend to make a descent upon a wagon-train, they come just before daylight, for it is generally darkest then, the fires have burned low and the emigrants sleep the soundest.
— from Snowed Up; or, The Sportman's Club in the Mountains by Harry Castlemon

Both Lewis and the Emperor saw that it would be unwise to claim Spain for themselves, therefore the French king named his youngest grandson, Philip, Duke of Anjou, as his representative, while the Austrian passed on his personal claims to his younger son, the Archduke Charles.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

They made their way to the reef, but the remainder of the treasure had been lifted, and the expedition sailed home empty-handed.
— from The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine

The square sail had been lowered, and the engines started, and a steady, faint throb kept the yacht mysteriously alive in every plank of her.
— from The Lion's Share by Arnold Bennett

It is impossible to conceive any trash more despicable than the slang songs which are current amongst the common people in Ireland; and this is the more to be lamented, as the extreme susceptibility of the people makes them liable to be easily moved to either good or evil by their songs.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various

It was in one of these papers that he found this paragraph:— There seems to be really nothing more that can be learned about the extraordinary Stanley G. Fulton-Blaisdell affair.
— from Oh, Money! Money! A Novel by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter