With this discreet reflection, and carrying his stick in his arms much as Punch carries his, Mr Boffin turned into Clifford's Inn aforesaid.)
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

In a few moments, when we get to the station, you will see the Princesse de Raynes and Comtesse Henriot waiting for me with their husbands.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And at his haughtie helmet making mark, So hugely stroke, that it the steele did rive, And cleft his head.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

One flight up Della ran, and collected herself, panting.
— from The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry

Osiris came from the Otherworld to this one, became the first Divine Ruler and Culture Hero of Egypt, and then returned to the Otherworld, where he is now a king.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Fifthly, when she doth either affect or endeavour anything to no certain end, but rashly and without due ratiocination and consideration, how consequent or inconsequent it is to the common end.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

In later years, if not at the time, the battles of Molino del Rey and Chapultepec have seemed to me to have been wholly unnecessary.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The doctor raised a corrective hand.
— from Juggernaut by Alice Campbell

The strangers drew revolvers and covered him.
— from The Boy Allies with the Victorious Fleets; Or, The Fall of the German Navy by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

The minute chronicle of his outdoor doings, intercalated with the maddening bafflement of his life in that impenetrable apartment, made such dramatic reading as Charity had never known.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

Half a dozen races and centuries had each had a hand in the Church and Convent of San Niccola too, 209 apparently.
— from Seekers in Sicily: Being a Quest for Persephone by Jane and Peripatetica by Anne Hoyt

But when presently he parted from the attractive Eurasian, and watched her slim figure as, turning, she waved her hand and disappeared round a corner, he knew that rest was not for him.
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

We took her up with as much pity and affection as if she were our nearest and dearest relative, and carried her home and placed her on Mrs Reichardt's bed; and then I laid some planks together, in the shape of what Mrs Reichardt called a coffin—and I dug her a deep grave in the guano.
— from The Little Savage by Frederick Marryat

Nevertheless such excellent farce sketches as Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Drew, Rice and Cohen, Homer Mason and Margaret Keeler, and other sterling performers have presented in vaudeville, are well worth while.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

She heard the footsteps of Daylight returning, and caught her breath with a quick intake.
— from Burning Daylight by Jack London

And thus it was that of the Lawrence girls, Helen alone had the proud distinction of having had a genuine love affair, the memory of which, however, was tinged with deep regret, and caused her naught 37 but pain.
— from A Colony of Girls by Kate Livingston Willard