A wind which was chill like the breeze of dawn was rattling the leaves of the window, which had been left open on their hinges.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He never comes down to breakfast until ten, and Miss Heathcote does not come down till half-past nine, so there is no chance of his knowing that I have come; you can be looking out of the hall window and can open the door when you see me.
— from All But Lost: A Novel. Vol. 2 of 3 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

His companions might make sport of his boat, or call him a ragamuffin, and he would bear it all good-naturedly, but let one of them hint that he was a poor boatman, or that he was not as honest as he ought to be, and the fisher-boy was aroused in an instant.
— from Go-Ahead; Or, The Fisher-Boy's Motto by Harry Castlemon

“We have kept Mr. Ritchie’s book lying on our table, hoping that we might find an opportunity for making it the basis of an article on the fearful evils which it discloses.
— from About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

Of all the sacred spots in Herrnhut there were none more sacred and more awe-inspiring than the "God's Acre" which the Brethren laid out on the Hutberg.
— from A History of the Moravian Church by J. E. (Joseph Edmund) Hutton

I must get into the army of France or be left out of the host of heaven."
— from The Broken Soldier and the Maid of France by Henry Van Dyke

Now, I have been long of opinion that he requires a boy companion, older than himself, who is naturally lively and cheerful, to share with him in his amusements, to accompany him in his walks, and share with him in his studies.
— from Sam's Chance, and How He Improved It by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The boy leaped out of the hiding-place, running swiftly towards the office, as if he would scorn to walk while he had his uniform on, and Ned and Joe were left alone, two very forsaken-feeling little' fellows, even though there was a faint prospect.
— from A District Messenger Boy, and A Necktie Party by James Otis

In some Elasmobranchii, as shewn in the accompanying woodcut (fig. 2), in the transitional vertebræ between the trunk and the tail, the ribs are supported by lateral outgrowths of the hæmal processes, while the wholly independent prolongations of [Pg 797] the hæmal processes appear to be about to give rise to the hæmal arches of the tail.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

I’ve been like one o’ those hard little apples which take so long to ripen.
— from Friar Tuck Being the Chronicles of the Reverend John Carmichael, of Wyoming, U. S. A. by Robert Alexander Wason