But despite all this fortitude, and these commonplace and practical considerations, his eyes would wander to that little handful of flowers lying on the table, and his thoughts would wander farther still.
— from Sunrise by William Black

The light from the fire streamed through the room and Pearl, cheered and restored more by that homely and familiar radiance than by any words of comfort he might have uttered, gradually sank further and further back in her chair and presently closed her eyes.
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

Conington and Professor Church have each done the same service for Virgil and their prose versions of the scholarly Latin poet will be found equally readable.
— from Comfort Found in Good Old Books by George Hamlin Fitch

They were a decathlon—rather a double decathlon—raised to its highest power, where contests in chess and poetry composition held equal place with those in ski-jumping and archery.
— from Planet of the Damned by Harry Harrison

Can any prisoner confined here ever forget the 'Sisters of Charity?'
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

She tilted her chin and partly closed her eyes—to show her complete indifference to what people might think of her.
— from Girls of Highland Hall: Further Adventures of the Dandelion Cottagers by Carroll Watson Rankin

Both the Catholic and Protestant clergy have endeavoured to excite an aversion to these beings, but in vain.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley