Long trains of coal cars, laden and unladen, stood upon sidings; the tracks of other roads were crossed; the smoke of other locomotives was seen on parallel lines;
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Toddy-drawing, and every thing connected with the manufacture and sale of arrack (country liquor) and unrefined sugar, form the orthodox occupation of the Tiyan.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

We got up and started down hill, leaving Mark in front of the cave looking after us sort of regretful.
— from Mark Tidd: His Adventures and Strategies by Clarence Budington Kelland

Only at the thought of the Countess Löwenskiold an unpleasant shudder ran over her.
— from Asbeïn: From the Life of a Virtuoso by Ossip Schubin

This attic was a most chilly and dismal spot, reached by a crazy ladder, and unlit save for a single frosted window; so low at the eaves and so dark that we could seldom stand upright, nor see without a candle.
— from The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls by Jacqueline Overton

They found Arabella in her room, crying like an unchastened school-girl; and their first idea was one of intense condemnation—fresh offences on the part of Mrs. Chump being conjectured.
— from Sandra Belloni (originally Emilia in England) — Complete by George Meredith

In the white wrinkled brow was a small dark-blue hole from which blood had oozed over the pallid cheek, leaving an ugly stain.
— from The Great War in England in 1897 by William Le Queux

The new almshouses were erected in a close, low, and unhealthy spot in Lewknor’s Lane.
— from Haunted London by Walter Thornbury

“And I will come to an explanation with the prince de Soubise on this point; and we will see whether or not I will allow myself to have my throat cut like an unresisting sheep.”
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de