The door was softly shut again; then after another interval it swung majestically open, and a murmur ran through the church: "The family!" Mrs. Welland came first, on the arm of her eldest son.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Like some grave shadow he flitted by those halls, pleading, arguing, half angrily demanding admittance, until there came the final NO: until men hustled the disturber away, marked him as foolish, unreasonable, and injudicious, a vain rebel against God's law.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

The blood continuing to flow from my wound, I sent for a surgeon who said that a vein had been opened, and that a proper ligature was necessary.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She contemplated the figure before her.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Athwart the rain thou seest the lightning fly; Now here, now there, bursting from out the clouds, The fires dash zig-zag—and that flaming power Falls likewise down to earth.
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

“Precisely.” “I am at the orders of the very reverend community.” “The four Mother Precentors will assist you.” “In nailing up the coffin?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It is a very general rule that even among peoples who have attained a high degree of civilization, the firstfruits of the harvest are used in the ritual repasts, of which the pascal feast is the best known example.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Betty was using her crash towel for a handkerchief, and Bab's lay on the ground as she listened with snapping eyes to the little tragedy.
— from Under the Lilacs by Louisa May Alcott

Richard Goodchild, Out of the Ship called The Furtherance .
— from Colonial Records of Virginia by Various

expand themselves and go into action, pass and repass like meteors, wave their bright-striped arms, and multiply the commands and counter-commands that are carried by the worming orderlies and cyclists, the former tardy, the latter maneuvering in quick dashes, like fish in water.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse

Both chambers combine and form what is called the Federal Assembly.
— from Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights by Kelly Miller

Led on by the ever-fleeing hope of the great "strike" that might lie just ahead, the two men penetrated so far into the depths of this rugged mountain country that they were for some time out of the reach of mails, causing their friends to finally give them up as dead.
— from The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson by Nellie Van de Grift Sanchez

“What would she think,” reflected Pen, “if Kind Kurt should tell her what kind of a child the fourth one is!”
— from Penny of Top Hill Trail by Belle Kanaris Maniates

[258] Then came the fatal Monday with its shipwreck of many hopes—in its tragic sequel too well known to need repetition here.
— from Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Barnette Miller

The shortness of the notice might also cause trouble for, as we were to leave the Islands that day, I could give only a few hours' notice.
— from From Job to Job around the World by Alfred C. B. (Alfred Charles Benson) Fletcher