As to her companion, while raising himself with one hand, he had taken her arm with the other; and so inadequate was his stock of gentleness to the requirements of her condition, that on his letting go I saw four distinct impressions left blue in the colourless skin.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I find such pleasure in being desired, that so often as a heart forms this desire, so often do I lovingly behold it to draw it unto Myself.'" "I am so glad you told me that, Aunt Mary.
— from Mary's Rainbow by Mary Edward Feehan

Arrowheads sewed into a bandoleer are still worn as insignia of rank by warriors, and it is probable that such was also true in the past, so that on interment these arrowpoints might have been placed in the mortuary basin deposited by the side of the warrior, as indicative of his standing or rank, and the bandoleer or leather strap to which they were attached decayed during its long burial in the earth.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Once the South Down district is left behind I think that Withyham is the jewel of Sussex.
— from Highways and Byways in Sussex by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Just a century had elapsed since John Smith had died in London, but in that time the colony which he had founded and which had been more than once so near extinction, had grown to be the greatest in America.
— from American Men of Action by Burton Egbert Stevenson

I tell you I 'eard the wall moving—it's coming down, and if it does, it 'll bust in the 'ole tunnel!" CHAPTER XXIII Hardly realizing what he was doing or why he was doing it, Fairchild seized Anita in his arms, and raising her to his breast as though she were a child, rushed out through the cross-cut and along the cavern to the fissure, there to find Harry awaiting them.
— from The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

And so it is that the player who has the technical mastery of the pianoforte placed, so to speak, at his disposal, is led by instinct toward the most modern expression of musical thought and genius.
— from The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players by Gustav Kobbé

But what desolation it leaves behind in those dark sorrowing hearts, who know nothing of the love of Jesus and the consolations of the gospel.
— from The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup