Her nervous cluck, when the chicken happened to be hidden in the long grass or under the squash-leaves; her gentle croak of satisfaction, while sure of it beneath her wing; her note of ill-concealed fear and obstreperous defiance, when she saw her arch-enemy, a neighbor's cat, on the top of the high fence,—one or other of these sounds was to be heard at almost every moment of the day.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In about three weeks from that time—as well as I can remember—the first warning reached me of something unusual going on under the surface.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

With me, too, when depress'd by some specially sad event, or tearing problem, I wait till I go out under the stars for the last voiceless satisfaction.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

136 They cast out their mooring stones and made fast the hawsers; they then got out upon the sea shore, mixed their wine, and got dinner ready.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

When the evidence lies all around us as thick as the fallen leaves of autumn, clustering on the pages of history, and proclaimed by every principle of mental science, that what is called conversion is nothing but a mental and temperamental or nervous phenomenon—a psychological process—how can we rank those amongst intelligent people who still claim it to be "the power of God operating upon the soul of the sinner"?
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

The preaching was going on under the same kinds of sheds, only they was bigger and held crowds of people.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

I but just saw him; for a coach was waiting to carry him to Islington, to the house of his friend the Reverend Mr. Strahan, where he went sometimes for the benefit of good air, which, notwithstanding his having formerly laughed at the general opinion upon the subject, he now acknowledged was conducive to health.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Rome will never gain on us, till she learns these virtues, and uses them; and then she may gain us, but it will be by ceasing to be what we now mean by Rome, by having a right, not to 'have dominion over our faith,' but to gain and possess our affections in the bonds of the gospel.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

"That's very true, my darling," returned O'Brien: "but at least I shall have the pleasant reflection that I came in as a gentleman, although I may not exactly go out under the same appearance.
— from Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Frederick Marryat

She leads her listener gently on, up the slopes of art [ 360 ] or letters or politics, to the higher peaks where her purely dogmatic mission begins.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Bianca rested her arms on the ledge of the window, gazing out upon the scene below her.
— from The Passport by Richard Bagot

Poorly dressed as a rule, tired looking, they gazed at their feet or glanced out upon the street with absent indifference.
— from Ben Blair The Story of a Plainsman by Will Lillibridge

On the day before, as he was sitting on watch in the early morning under the lee of the bulwark, he accidentally overheard a conversation going on upon the slip below that set his blood on fire.
— from The Pilot and his Wife by Jonas Lie

Act as if you were merely looking in out of curiosity; make a circuit of the islet and then come back and go on up the Sheepscot toward Wiscasset.”
— from The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Edward Sylvester Ellis

She had been so interested in her surroundings that she had not heeded the conversation going on until the strong disapproval on both old faces drew her attention to the words "society" and "débutante"; and when, to a question, Mr. Thrall answered, "Juliet," they gazed at him with incredulous wonder for a moment.
— from A Pasteboard Crown: A Story of the New York Stage by Clara Morris

Cissy is standing in one of the windows, somewhat apart; she gazes out upon the stilly night, and softly cogitates.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 707, July 14, 1877 by Various