Her mother and I cut up several sheets of printed words so that she could arrange them into sentences.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

While we waited for the car to come up she stood on the step, just as before, twiddling her foot, looking down.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

It is likewise probable that when an extract of coffee cools upon standing, some of the aromatic principles separate out and are lost by volatilization.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“Some day one’s bound to come upon some sort of chance to get it all back again.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Dans l'état actuel des choses, je pense que l'élan initial a été donné, mais que la première phase (d'ici 2000) risque de retomber comme un soufflé si on ne consolide pas très vite le projet, dans chaque pays participant.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Passing onward, he came upon stalls significant of his being in a hot country, for at these only fans were sold—fans of every size and colour.
— from George Alfred Henty: The Story of an Active Life by George Manville Fenn

You can understand something spread out wide, can you not?
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

First in this respect, as she had been for so many years wherever he could properly place her in the front, was his wife—and to Queen Alexandra was given the first honour of the new reign in her creation, under special statute, on February 12th, as Lady of the Most Noble Order of the Garter—the greatest order of Knighthood in the world.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

I think Of what I saw at Rome once in the Square O' the Spaniards, opposite the Spanish House: There was a foreigner had trained a goat, A shuddering white woman of a beast, To climb up, stand straight on a pile of sticks Put close, which gave the creature room enough: When she was settled there, he, one by one, Took away all the sticks, left just the four Whereon the little hoofs did really rest, There she kept firm, all underneath was air.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

“Of course,” cried Ursula suddenly, “she ought to thank her stars if we will go and see her.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Gradually they surround the poor creatures, until several specimens of this antelope have been taken captive.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

—Another very fine group of Trumpet Daffodils are those known as "bicolors," so called because the spreading segments are one colour (generally white or creamy), while the trumpet is another colour (usually some shade of soft or deep yellow).
— from Beautiful Bulbous Plants for the Open Air by John Weathers

How many there are, I cannot say, but at least half-a-dozen are interesting as monuments, notably the charming life-size bronze figure of a Vintager, by the gifted Salinois sculptor, Max Claudel, ornamenting one, the fine torso surmounting another, and of which the history is mysterious, the group of swans adorning a third, and so on; at every turn the stranger coming upon some street ornament of this kind, whilst the perpetual sound of running water is delightful to the ear.
— from Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards

AT WILDERNESS LODGE PATSY CARROLL UNDER SOUTHERN SKIES Other Volumes in Preparation CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY, New York Copyright, 1918, By Cupples & Leon Company Patsy Carroll Under Southern Skies Printed in U. S.
— from Patsy Carroll Under Southern Skies by Josephine Chase