You drive on and suddenly see standing before you right in the roadway a dark figure like a monk; it stands motionless, waiting, holding something in its hands. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is no mere accident that this chain is so in sympathy with the line of the face: it would hardly have remained where it is for long, and must have been put in this position by the artist with the intention (conscious or instinctive) of accentuating the face line.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

The colonel still stared at my friend like a man in a trance.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I thought I was going to be without a cabin-mate, but a Frenchman, Arturo Camps, who was a friend of my father, looked after me.
— from Rizal's own story of his life by José Rizal

‘A very singular young man that,’ said the powdered-headed footman, looking after Mr. Weller, with a countenance which clearly showed he could make nothing of him.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

On finding, however, instead of the fancied liquid, a mass of something like cold stone, he would be disconcerted.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

" Mrs. Blackwell's domestic affairs will not permit any further lecturing and Miss Anthony says in a letter to her: "O, dear, dear, how I do wish you could have kept on with me.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

A form like amâre may be either indicative , infinitive , or imperative .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

The saviour, the former hero, was flying like a mangy, unkempt sheep-dog at his lackey, and the lackey was jeering at him!
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

On him lay no obligation of faithfulness to his first love; a man, with the world before him, he would, as was right, find another to share his life.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

My naval friends laugh at me.
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

The schooner Fanny lying at Mill creek near Hampton, will soon be higher up the James.
— from Some Notes on Shipbuilding and Shipping in Colonial Virginia by Cerinda W. Evans

"Had I been base enough to desert my trust, these limbs and this strength are yet sufficient to carry me safely down the mountain; but though a guide of the Alps may freeze like another man, the last throb of his heart will be in behalf of those he serves!"
— from The Headsman; Or, The Abbaye des Vignerons by James Fenimore Cooper

General agriculture, with dairying, are very profitable, and to these are to be added fishing, lumbering and mining.
— from A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell

"I had not talked with him ten minutes before I felt as I do when the scene changes suddenly in one of Shakespeare's plays,—as if I had been flung like a meteor into a new world.
— from The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

The great artist was not for that time procurable, having engagements away from London, and Mr. Dudley Costello was substituted; Stanfield taking off the edge of his desertion as an actor by doing valuable work in management and scenery.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

She hesitated, shot a quick furtive look at Miller's intent face, and added: "But I am alarmed by the mystery surrounding Sinclair Spencer's death."
— from I Spy by Natalie Sumner Lincoln