“Then you know where Mr Goodwin lives, I suppose?” said Anna.
— from Thistle and Rose: A Story for Girls by Amy Walton

Roy fairly hugged himself as he thought of his good luck in securing such a desirable berth.
— from The Young Wireless Operator—Afloat Or, How Roy Mercer Won His Spurs in the Merchant Marine by Lewis E. (Lewis Edwin) Theiss

Although Scolar uses the arms of the University (their earliest occurrence in print), yet the Registers of the University almost entirely ignore the fact that for the second time the greatest literary invention since speech and writing were known, was silently at work in its midst.
— from The Early Oxford Press A Bibliography of Printing and Publishing at Oxford, '1468'-1640; With Notes, Appendixes and Illustrations by Falconer Madan

In obedience to the summons, we have to fancy the little group leaving its safe shelter, as sailors might put out from behind a breakwater into a stormy sea.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren

And he had not thought his fingers could go lifeless in so short a time.
— from Lost Face by Jack London

She turned to him, and, This you seek is gone; Look in, she said, as pants the furnace, brief, Frost-white.
— from Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith

Conrad, after long neglect by all but a tiny intelligenzia , had lately come into his own; Galsworthy continued to break new hearts with the exquisite tenderness and beauty of each new book; Wells, no less prolific than versatile, was pouring out an astounding profusion of challenges to religion, official politics, conventional morals, accepted economics and established education, with an occasional glorious lapse into such skylarking as Boon and into such immortal comedy as Mr. Polly ; Bennett, most expert of craftsmen, was completing his great series of giant miniatures and taking an occasional holiday with The Card and The Regent .
— from While I Remember by Stephen McKenna

At Waterval Onder the two Governments listened in silent suspense as the sonorous reverberations rolled through the mountains, louder and fiercer yet, till the firm earth shook beneath the shock.
— from With Steyn and De Wet by F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar