Presented in the light of Mrs. Trenor's vigorous comments, the reckoning was certainly a formidable one, and Lily, as she listened, found herself gradually reverting to her friend's view of the situation.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

The other boys of the countryside, most of them sons of laborers on the Bentley farms, had guns with which they went hunting rabbits and squirrels, but David did not go with them.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Insik ang íyang gibíbut, He took a Chinese girl for his girlfriend.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The wild, chimney-corner legend (which, without copying all its extravagances, my narrative essentially follows) here gives an account of some very strange behavior on the part of Colonel Pyncheon's portrait.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

After this sharp dialogue I left him, and travelling post I set out, displeased with myself for having given such advantages to a man wholly unworthy of them.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

You would not object to cancel his indentures at his request and for his good?
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

After the salutations and the pause he extended his right hand majestically toward the altar, at the same time fixing his gaze on the alcalde.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The servants, who stood by in attendance, saw him at first still holding the glass in his hand and looking in, and then, when it fell from his grasp, open his eyes again to pick it up, but when at length the mirror dropped, and he at once ceased to move, they in a body came forward to ascertain what had happened to him.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Violet, more surprised than any of the others, forgets her glove, and comes forward into the middle of the room, both puzzled and displeased.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

"I hope that you will find some nice little companions at Liège," Sir Francis had gravely told his daughter in valediction, "but remember that exclusive friendships are not to be desired.
— from Consequences by E. M. Delafield

But Lord Henry checked him, placing a restraining hand upon his sleeve, and forcing him gently back into his seat.
— from The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

"Folks hae great reason to be thankfu' that they are as they are.
— from The Shepherd's Calendar. Volume I (of II) by James Hogg

The effect of this on the German was remarkable and instantaneous; for her gun’s crew at once deserted the gun and darted down into the conning-tower.
— from Q-Ships and Their Story by E. Keble (Edward Keble) Chatterton

Georgette did honor to the dinner; but she drank very little, although her companion did his utmost to induce her to, crying, as he filled her glass with beaune première: "Above all things, don't put water in this wine; it would be downright murder!
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

He stayed not long here, for, having, before the general assembly held at Glasgow 1638, fully vindicated himself, both anent his affair with Dr. Cameron, while regent in the university, and his settlement in Ireland, he was, for his great parts and known abilities, by them ordered to be transported to St. Andrews; but the assembly's motives to this did prove his determent for some time, and the burgh of Ayr, where the Lord had begun to bless his labours, had the favour for another year.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie

In the case of the hairy spider, I do not think any creature, however stupid, could mistake its meaning when it stands suddenly up, a figure horribly grotesque; then, dropping down on all eights, charges violently forwards.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Half an hour earlier my father had come up from the marble yard, where he spent his days cutting lambs and doves and elaborate ivy wreaths in stone, and the smell from his great rubber coat, which hung drying before the kitchen stove, floated with the aroma of coffee through the half-open door.
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow