Gregson and Lestrade exchanged glances as if they thought this proposition rather a bold one; but Holmes at once took the prisoner at his word, and loosened the towel which we had bound round his ancles.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle

I was going to say something about people who faked confessions to get a little easy glory, as compared to the guys who were really guilty and would sooner be chopped up than talk about it, but at that moment a fourth voice started talking in the plane.
— from The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

Various successes marked her career for the next two years, until, under the command of Captain Charles Stewart, she had her memorable adventure off Madeira, in which she engaged with the two British ships Cyane , thirty-six guns, and Levant , eighteen guns, and captured both, with a loss of only three men killed and twelve wounded.
— from The Book of the Ocean by Ernest Ingersoll

She opened it, then gave a little embarrassed grunt, and began backing away.
— from Jane Field: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Once or twice, fearing to be observed, I averted my gaze and looked elsewhere; guiltily and with hot temples.
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

All these factors taken together often give a last experience great associative strength, even though the last experience is not recent.
— from The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle

The seven streets were Great and Little Earl, Great and Little White Lion, Great and Little St. Andrew’s, and Queen; though the dial-stone had but six faces, two of the streets opening into one angle.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs