As we approached the house I saw a child standing in the doorway, and Captain Keller said, "There she is.
— 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

That was all she said then; but she laid her hand on his shoulder when they went in to dinner, and Champney knew she was satisfied.
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

Edwin Forrest, the elder Wallack, E.L. Davenport, Edwin Booth, Bogumil Davison, and Charles Kean steadily kept Shylock upon the stage,—some walking in the religious track and some leaving it.
— from Shadows of the Stage by William Winter

As much of him as appeared to be human appeared to be Irish; and Jean, after the first qualm of repulsion, when she faced him over the hotel register, detected a certain kindly solicitude in his manner, and was reassured.
— from Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower

The Dane managed to touch on things Divine without a discord, and Charles Kingsley's satire was not less keen than Oscar's, but he could point his moral without intruding very sacred things into his playful pages, and I wish that the two last sentences of "The Happy Prince" could be erased.
— from Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby