Far away, miles off, in the direction of Grimpen, a single steady yellow light was shining.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Lloyd George began to heckle the Allies regarding equipment and guns and Susan said you would hear more of Lloyd George yet.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

When however, I proposed her quitting the Castle of Lindenberg, She rejected the idea in positive terms. 'Be generous, Alphonso,' She said; 'You possess my heart, but use not the gift ignobly.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Mother seemed as if she could not make enough fuss about the old gentleman, and she said yes at once when he asked if he might present some “goodies” to his little friends.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

‘More than that, Agnes, I knew, almost as if I had known this story, that there was something inexplicably gentle and softened, surrounding you; something that might have been sorrowful in someone else (as I can now understand it was), but was not so in you.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

She is a good, honest girl, and she saved your life, daroga, at a moment when I would not have given twopence for your Persian skin.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

“I have noticed it,” Gavin answered, sniffing, “since you came in.
— from The Little Minister by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

"Ah, but I might be tempted; guardians are sometimes; so you'd better keep your eye on me, and in order to do that you must learn all about these affairs," answered Dr. Alec, as he made an entry in his own very neat account-book.
— from Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott

[13] From Hakluyt we have the following: Their old wheat they firste steepe a night in hot water, and in the morning pounding yt in a morter, they use a small baskett for the boulter or searser, and when 018 they have syfted fourth the finest, they pound againe the great, and so separating yt by dashing their hand in the baskett, receave the flower in a platter of wood, which, blending with water, etc.
— from Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 3-46 by William Henry Holmes

To get a station saddle you must not only guess two of the thirteen numbers drawn, but you must also guess the position they will occupy in the slip.
— from Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. by William F. Howe

Then his companion comes forward and fires a gun, a signal, so you might believe, for a great discharge of musketry among the rocks, platoon after platoon firing a feu de joie .
— from A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia by Walter White

She has spoken so well of him to me; she has heard about that girl, and she said, yes, she certainly did say, 'It shall be done.'
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

He asked me if the Widow Lacombe didn't live here with her goddaughter, a seamstress, so you see there could be no mistake."
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

As she spoke, there came a blush, as innocent as virgin ever knew, to my mother's smooth cheek; and she looked so fair, so good, and still so young all the while that you would have said that either Dusius, the Teuton fiend, or Nock, the Scandinavian sea-imp, from whom the learned assure us we derive our modern Daimones, "The Deuce," and Old Nick, had possessed my father, if he had not learned to love such a creature.
— from The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron