But when he has finished using the pencil, he will drop it cleanly and not let it slip slowly from his fingers.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

"If you come any nearer, Louis, I shall lay open the side of your head," she announced, gently, as the boys danced too near her hermitage; they, accustomed alike to her decisions and her words, danced farther away without any discussion of the subject.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

A good article is best advertised by truth; and it was the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth which the Committee, with admirable conciseness and no little ingenuity, so promulgated that it could no longer escape notice even in the Central Empires.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, September 22, 1920 by Various

It is only, as was shown in detail when discussing the terraces of Coquimbo, when the sea with difficulty and after a long lapse of time has either corroded a narrow ledge into solid rock, or has heaped up on a steep surface a NARROW mound of detritus, that we can confidently assert that the land at that level and at that period long remained absolutely stationary.
— from Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

We left our Province on the twelfth Day of the third Month, in the Year 1746, and had several Meetings in the upper Part of Chester County, and near Lancaster ; in some of which, the Love of Christ prevailed, uniting us together in his Service.
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

Now, that sugar and cotton are no longer in such demand, nearly half the fazendas or factories are ruined, and such is become the indolent temper of the people, that rather than seek to redeem their estates, they will take the smallest annuity for a portion.
— from Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823 by Callcott, Maria, Lady

The Order was one for both men and women, and in the double monasteries the canons and nuns lived in separate houses, having no communion.
— from A Handbook of Pictorial History by Henry W. Donald

Some families pitched their tents, others, deeming curtains a needless luxury in such magnificent weather, contented themselves with the shelter of the bushes.
— from The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne