At the approach of the commander in chief the buzz of talk ceased and all eyes were fixed on Kutúzov who, wearing a white cap with a red band and a padded overcoat that bulged on his round shoulders, moved slowly along the road on his white horse.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

'With,' returned the man, pointing backward over his right shoulder with his right thumb, 'the T'other Governor?'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The tiny, vivid germ that contained the bud of her real self, her real love, was killed, she would go on growing as a plant, she would do her best to produce her minor flowers, but her leading flower was dead before it was born, all her growth was the conveying of a corpse of hope.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

She is a charming creature, but her blithe spirit is almost broken, and her sweet temper almost spoiled, by the still unremitting persecutions of her mother in behalf of her rejected suitor—not violent, but wearisome and unremitting like a continual dropping.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Then, turning to him with an easy gesture, and the pale bravery of her recovered smile—"Dear Mr. Selden," she said, "you promised to see me to my cab.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

He was naked, with the exception of cloth drawers at the left side of which hung a large knife in a sheath, and he bore on his right shoulder a heavy iron sledge-hammer.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Black on her receaves soe strong a grace 10 It seemes the fittest beautie for the face.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The garden walks were damp, and Edna called to the maid to bring out her rubber sandals.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Such a miscarriage, upon the back of his rival's success, could not fail to overwhelm him with confusion; especially as the mother baited him with repeated entreaties to do something for the recovery of her daughter.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

From the very [Pg 360] beginning of his reign Sultan Abdul Hamid has never tolerated any contradiction; apparently he listened patiently to any proffered advice, but without allowing himself to be shaken in his preconceived opinion; and when some Grand-Vizier or other distinguished himself by steadfastness to his own individual views, as was the case, for instance, with Khaired-din Pasha, Kiamil Pasha, Ahmed Vefik Pasha, and others, they soon have had to retire.
— from The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 2 by Ármin Vámbéry

The gold-brown eyes of the girl glowed from beneath the wide brim of her rather shabby hat, but the young teacher saw not the hat but only the radiant young face.
— from Dixie Martin, the Girl of Woodford's Cañon by Grace May North

"My world," replied the general, as he pulled at the bows of his rather soiled white tie, and evened them, "My world—" the general jabbed the poker spear-like into the floor, "I guess I'm a kind of a transcendentalist!"
— from A Certain Rich Man by William Allen White

“O, Finsbury,” said he, not without embarrassment, 375 “it’s of course only fair to let you know—the fact is, money is a trifle tight—I have some paper out—for that matter, every one’s complaining—and in short——” “It has never been our habit, Rodgerson,” said Morris, turning pale.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 07 by Robert Louis Stevenson

St. Elizabeth sits beside the Virgin, who holds her own boy on her right side, while bending to embrace the little St. John with the left arm.
— from The Madonna in Art by Estelle M. (Estelle May) Hurll

But beware of her, Rochefort; she is even more dangerous than Camus.”
— from The Presentation by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

He tells how in the last fight with the Romans, before the day was lost, the Achaean general fled, leaving his men to shift for themselves, and he contrasts his selfish cowardice with the soldierly devotion of an Athenian cavalry officer who on the disastrous retreat from Syracuse brought off his regiment safe, then wheeled about and, riding back alone, found the death he sought in the midst of the enemy.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer

If there were bodies of hard rock, such as the Baraboo quartzite, surrounded by sandstone, such as the Potsdam, the sandstone on either hand would be worn down much more readily than the quartzite, and in the course of degradation the latter would [Pg 48] come to stand out prominently.
— from The Geography of the Region about Devil's Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin With Some Notes on Its Surface Geology by Rollin D. Salisbury

He put up the helm as he spoke, and brought our head round so that we were in a position to have rammed the cruiser had we chosen.
— from The Iron Pirate: A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea by Max Pemberton