He sat down upon a low settee and blinked at us inquiringly with his weak, watery blue eyes.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

So when she had rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, and wept till she was weary, she set out on her way, and thus she walked for many and many a long day, until at last she came to a great mountain.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The good lady began by protesting that she couldn’t touch a drop—then took a small drop—then a large drop—then a great many drops; and her feelings being of the nature of those substances which are powerfully affected by the application of strong waters, she dropped a tear with every drop of negus, and so got on, melting the feelings down, until at length she had arrived at a very pathetic and decent pitch of misery.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Pero déme usted antes las señas del tesoro....
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

She washed the soiled linen, the shirts and the dishcloths, which she dried upon a line; she carried the slops down to the street every morning and carried up the water, stopping for breath at every landing.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Then she told them that her step-mother had wished to have her killed, but that the huntsman had spared her life, and that she had run for the whole day, until at last she had found their dwelling.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

"With wind at S. W., and stormy," he says, "(such a canal) would be valuable for exit, but for entrance from the east, every nautical man would prefer making a stretch out into the open Lake, weathering the Light at one long board, and rounding into the Harbour with a fair wind, to hauling through the Canal, coming in dead upon a lee shore, and having to beat up the Bay in short tacks."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Lady Caroline sank down upon a low soft couch, and motioned to the girl to seat herself beside her; then, possessing herself of one of Margaret's hands and stroking it gently, she said with a smile— "You have another admirer, Margaret?"
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The Patna, with a slight hiss, passed over that plain, luminous and smooth, unrolled a black ribbon of smoke across the sky, left behind her on the water a white ribbon of foam that vanished at once, like the phantom of a track drawn upon a lifeless sea by the phantom of a steamer.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Lyle, as was her custom, dropped upon a low seat beside her friend, but was silent.
— from The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West by A. Maynard (Anna Maynard) Barbour

CHAPTER IV THE EXPLOSION On the following afternoon Snap was walking down to the river front, on an errand for his father, when he caught sight of Ham Spink and Carl Dudder, under a lumber shed.
— from Guns and Snowshoes; Or, the Winter Outing of the Young Hunters by Edward Stratemeyer

"My son," she uttered, in surprise, as he advanced and laid the still form of Little Nobody down upon a low sofa, drawing back the heavy cloak and showing what it hid—the fair young girl in the loose, white slip, and the wealth of ruddy, golden curls.
— from Little Nobody by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

These, as it extracted them, were lifted out and deposited upon a level surface of earth behind it.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As I could discover none of the men, I sat down upon a large stone near some women who were supping on salmon roes and berries.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie

Henry himself, with the aid of Cuthbert Tunstall, drew up a long statement "against {306} the opinions of the Germans on the sacrament in both kinds, private masses, and sacerdotal marriage."
— from The Age of the Reformation by Preserved Smith

Dutch Debby uttered a little startled scream.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Cloaks, furs, Cashmere shawls, and all that is required for night or day use, are liberally supplied; indeed, so much so, that to see one of these trousseaux , one might imagine the person for whom it was intended was going to pass her life in some far-distant clime, where there would be no hope of finding similar articles, if ever wanted.
— from The Idler in France by Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of