Then Satan came running and said he had found a compartment with one shelf and one sofa unoccupied, and had made our beds and had stowed our baggage.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

To Borís, Julie was particularly gracious: she regretted his early disillusionment with life, offered him such consolation of friendship as she who had herself suffered so much could render, and showed him her album.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

As he passed the piano Carmen rose and seized his hand.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

After a time, Malek al Moadhem, fearing the reproaches of the European nations, treated his captive more kindly; he had his chains removed and sent him his own physicians, and delicate food from his royal table, and to keep him warm he gave him two robes of black samite, trimmed and lined with fur, which were [Pg 74] plentifully adorned with gold buttons.
— from The Boy's Book of Heroes by Helena Peake

Before he could rise and show himself, he heard the following terrible words in the voice of Claude Vignon.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Enough that, by dint of crouching, crawling, creeping, rolling and sliding, he had contrived to bury himself, at length, under the wigwam, occupying the space, in part, of a decayed log connected with the clayed chimney; and fitting himself to the space in the log, from which he had scratched out the rotten fragments, as snugly as if he were a part of it.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 3, September 1850 by Various

Old man LaCour come 'round and say he have orders for find Tucker and bring him in dead or 'live.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Texas Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

It had always been so, ever since she could remember, and she had heard the minister say, again and again, that it was an ordination of Providence.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

The Raton peaks in New Mexico once sent out lava streams that spread over the country between the Upper Arkansas and Canadian rivers; and St. Helens, Hood, Edgecombe, Baker, Rainier, Fair Weather and Shasta, are cones well known to the western tourist.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey