As the mother continued, her pale face lighting up, Elizabeth saw Landis in a different light.
— from Elizabeth Hobart at Exeter Hall by Jean K. (Jean Katherine) Baird

Oh, my friends, let us each search our own lives, and repent, and amend, and resolve to do our duty, as sons of God, in the station to which God has called us, by the help of the Spirit of God, which He has promised freely to those who ask Him.
— from Sermons for the Times by Charles Kingsley

Mademoiselle de Chevreuse, the most fantastical lady upon earth, suspecting that I held a secret correspondence with the Queen, could not forbear murmuring and threatening what she would do.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Anna Czarnik's dull face lighted up ever so little.
— from Cheerful—By Request by Edna Ferber

There is a popular idea that the Lily of the Valley will grow in any kind of deep shade, and [149] so you see its poor, starved leaves struggling for life under evergreen shrubs, or the strong roots of trees that steal all its nourishment.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

In their presence he reveals himself as the son of Parsifal, in a scena of consummate power ("In fernem Land, unnahbar euren Schritten"), wherein the Grail motive reaches its fullest development.
— from The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers by George P. (George Putnam) Upton

"This horse did I sell, and forthwith lit upon even such a crew of rogues and thieves as I had left at Liège.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen