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Here, too, was a priest in his robes, and here were two altar boys who straggled, so that as the procession started the priest was moved to break off his chanting long enough to chide his small attendants and wave them back into proper alignment.
— from Paths of Glory: Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb
She renounced all common life except the childlike, harmless, animal-like one of mutual material wants, and this renunciation brought her already a peace which, though barren, was infinitely calming after her former struggling uncertainties.
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher
With the restive spirit, which is peculiar to the nobility of the old school, in whom still survives the memory of the League and the day of the Barricades (in 1588), he bewailed himself in his cab, loudly enough to compromise him, over the change that had come over the Court.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by HonorĂ© de Balzac
But the saw slowly ate its way into the [142] tough timber until at last the man withdrew it, and, holding his candle low, examined the cut he had made.
— from The Iron Boys in the Mines; or, Starting at the Bottom of the Shaft by James R. Mears
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