The speakers whom they had heard were two men, who had a pack of cards and some silver money between them, while upon the screen itself the games they had played were scored in chalk.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother’s heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John’s sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

There was something heart-rending about Anna's crying, her childish anguish seemed so utter and so timeless, as if it were a thing of all the ages.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Then he descended with cautious and slow step, for he dreaded lest an accident similar to that he had so adroitly feigned should happen in reality.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Holmes drew one of the chairs into a corner and sat silent, while his eyes travelled round and round and up and down, taking in every detail of the apartment.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

It just shows that you can bury yourself in the country and still somehow acquire a vocabulary.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Besides that, whatever the truth of things be; yet so long as they are required by any Church to profess they believe, what they do not, their separation cannot be said causless, and so Schism.
— from The Protestants Plea for a Socinian Justifying His Doctrine from Being Opposite to Scripture or Church Authority; and Him from Being Guilty of Heresie, or Schism by R. H.

But if this were the condition of the time, if to rise in public life involved so many mean crafts and submissions, so many deadly imminent risks from spies and from fools clad in a little brief authority, how could any man hope to find the Chief Good in it?
— from Expositor's Bible: The Book of Ecclesiastes by Samuel Cox

Wt. 106 Chlorides and sulphates Same as for ammonia.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 561, October 2, 1886 by Various

As he gazed around at the matted verdure, his ears caught a strange sound which was yet not utterly strange.
— from Gold Out of Celebes by Aylward Edward Dingle

Dere's de lamp broke—carpet burnt—pots and skillets hauled out of the closet—ebery ting turned upside down; why dere's bin a reg'lar 'sturbance down here," she continued, as she surveyed the apartment.
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

Artegui, meanwhile, calm and silent, sat upright in his chair, haughty as an ancient {161} stoic; his soul was pervaded by a bitter pleasure,—the pleasure of feeling himself to be truly dead and of knowing that treacherous nature had tried her arts in vain to resuscitate him.
— from A Wedding Trip by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de