But I shall get out of my depth; my shallow mind cannot comprehend, as it ought, these weighty subjects: Let me only therefore pray, that, after having made a grateful use of God's mercies here, I may, with my dear benefactor, rejoice in that happy state, where is no mixture, no unsatisfiedness; and where all is joy, and peace, and love, for evermore!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

A bell rings in the hall; shortly afterwards the door is heard to open.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

She perceived, that it was useless to seek Madame Montoni, through the wide extent and intricacies of the castle, now, too, when every avenue seemed to be beset by ruffians; in this hall she could not resolve to stay, for she knew not how soon it might become their place of rendezvous; and, though she wished to go to her chamber, she dreaded again to encounter them on the way.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"There is not a bad room in the house," said Allan; and then he made me admire the linen-presses and old-fashioned cupboards, and the bright red-tiled kitchen looking out on a laurestinus walk.
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

As the daughter of the Rev. Peter Trevisa, who had been universally respected, not only as a gentleman and a scholar, but also as a representative of an ancient Cornish family of untold antiquity, she had a perfect right to be received into the highest society of Cornwall, but her father had been a reserved and poor man.
— from In the Roar of the Sea by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"I believe you to be the biggest rascal in town," he shouted.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

Each one of the laborers as they came up to him dropped the implement he was using, and, unslinging a rifle carried across his back, raised it to his shoulder in salute.
— from Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

What more about Himself we may also hold to be revealed in the human spirit, I hope to consider in our next lecture.
— from Philosophy and Religion Six Lectures Delivered at Cambridge by Hastings Rashdall

Yet from her who had been reared in the hard school of that cruel age childhood had long departed, leaving her a ripened woman before her time.
— from Red Eve by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

This tribe, again, like all the others, was divided into several families; the term being used here not in its ordinary acceptation, to signify a mere household, but rather in the heraldic sense, to denote a lineage or kindred descended from a common ancestor, and constituting the main branches of an original stock.
— from Palestine, or, the Holy Land: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Michael Russell

r feet, leaning her body against the rail for support as the boat rolled in the heavy sea.
— from Laughing Last by Jane Abbott