Absorbed in an idea he closed the door and, lighting a lamp, spread the handful of weeds and grasses upon the floor.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

She had indeed many disappointments, and London at large suffered from her vivid remembrance of the strong points of the American civic idea; but she made the best of its dingy dignities and only heaved an occasional sigh and uttered a desultory “Well!” which led no further and lost itself in retrospect.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

[5] de antiguo, long ago; long since .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

So they pressed on, threading at random deserted squares, dusky alleys, long and gloomy passages, till at last they saw {101} shining in the distance a light, a light small and waning, about which the mist formed a circle of ghostly, glimmering lustre.
— from Romantic legends of Spain by Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer

By-and-by he found himself at home, and began to pipe his little tunes; and there he was, sure enough, swimming and waving about, with all the droopings and liftings and languishing side-turnings of the head that I had laughed at.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

He had ever expected, he said, beyond all comparison, the welfare and security of the public before his own; "having always placed his particular interests under his foot, even as he was still resolved to do, as long as life should endure."
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

To be sure, there were the village people at their doors, and lads and lasses setting out, like Lily, for their walk.
— from A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The Burgundian era shines pleasingly forth from those dark ages, like a lovely spring day amid the showers of February.
— from History of the Revolt of the Netherlands — Complete by Friedrich Schiller

She stayed for a day after his departure, a long and lonely Sunday.
— from The Job: An American Novel by Sinclair Lewis

Letherland then spoke to Chandler of the death of the two Pelhams shortly before, “of the alarm it caused all over this great city, both from its novelty and fatality,” and of his own care and pains in turning over ancient and modern writers to see if he could trace any footsteps of this remarkable and terrible disease: at last, after long search, he had been so happy as to discover the identical disease circumstantially described in the Spanish writers [1267] .
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

The sleeping forms of the disciples are laid about like so many draped statues taken from their pedestals.
— from The Venetian School of Painting by Evelyn March Phillipps

102:011 My days are like a long shadow.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Psalms by Anonymous