Rosy tints were spreading on the waxen cheeks, her eyes shone, the youthfulness of her soul changed the light wrinkles into gracious lines, and all about her solicited affection.
— from The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honoré de Balzac

On his return to his court of Odiaa or Odiaz , he was poisoned by his queen, then big with child by one of her servants; but before he died he caused his eldest son, then young, to be declared king.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr

" "I am to understand then," commented His Excellency suavely, "that you made absolutely no effort—" "You are to understand just that," said Philip quietly.
— from Diane of the Green Van by Leona Dalrymple

"And I'm always careful when I cross here, ever since, two years ago, I was nearly run down by a train.
— from Baseball Joe in the Big League; or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles by Lester Chadwick

And if it had been possible for you to take Goethe's friendship away from this melancholy, hasty life, hunted to premature death, then you would have crushed him even sooner than you did.
— from On the Future of our Educational Institutions by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

An hour by the clock had elapsed since the yacht got under way, and it was evident from her motion that she was laboring through a heavy sea.
— from Little By Little; or, The Cruise of the Flyaway by Oliver Optic