While he stood smiling with embarrassed pleasure her eyes rose from the tie she was straightening to his.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

She was a born singer; poetry was her natural language, and to write was less effort than to speak, for she was a shy, sensitive child, with strange reserves and reticences, not easily putting herself "en rapport" with those around her.
— from The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

‘Servants, be subject,’ he said, till his argument rose to a height above which not even Paul himself ever rose.
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

Under the original instrument, each partner had equal rights in the assets of the firm.
— from William Morris: Poet, Craftsman, Socialist by Elisabeth Luther Cary

Bryan received 6,500,000 votes, nearly a million more than any elected President had ever received, but he ran 600,000 votes behind McKinley.
— from The New Nation by Frederic L. (Frederic Logan) Paxson

Political stability and sound economic policies have encouraged recent foreign investment.
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

i ld, ch i ldren; wom a n, wom e n; r ea d (infinitive), r ea d (past participle); s ay , s ay s; dr ea m, dr ea med; l ea p, l ea ped; h ea r, h ea rd; c a n, c a
— from The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students (4th edition) by Walter Ripman

The inland birds and mammals from the St. Lawrence to Ungava now come under the Province of Quebec; though no effective protection has ever reached the Canadian Labrador.
— from Draft of a Plan for Beginning Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador by William Charles Henry Wood

He is equally kind to foreign statesmen, and sends to them messages as though from an altitude which no European politician had ever reached.
— from North America — Volume 2 by Anthony Trollope

Each peasant had exclusive right to one or more of these strips in each of the three great fields, making, say, thirty acres in all;
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes