Before we reached the stable, I felt something tense in her silence, and glancing up I saw that she was crying.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

For them the earliest salmon is caught in our eastern rivers, and the shy woodcock stains the dry leaves with his blood in his remotest haunts, and the turtle comes from the far Pacific Islands to be gobbled up in soup.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Indeed the talents of a rich and accomplished young fellow like Harry were not likely to go unappreciated in such a place.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Or howsoever they be unseasonable in winter, or at some times, they have their good use in summer.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Now you must throw out the lump of salt,” said the Master-maid, and the Prince did so, and it grew up into such a great high mountain right across the sea that the giant could not come over it, and the river-sucker could not drink any more water.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

He will give up, I say, a part of this additional conveniency; for he will seldom be obliged to give up the whole, but will, in consequence of the tax, get a better house for fifty pounds a-year, than he could have got if there had been no tax for as a tax of this kind, by taking away this particular competitor, must diminish the competition for houses of sixty pounds rent, so it must likewise diminish it for those of fifty pounds rent, and in the same manner for those of all other rents, except the lowest rent, for which it would for some time increase the competition.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

On one occasion, when Strickland was so much better that in a day or two he was to get up, I sat with them in the studio.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

As she glanced up in surprise she noticed for the first time an odd contraction of his pupils, and the discovery, familiar enough in her professional experience, made her disregard the abruptness of his question and softened the tone in which she answered.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

He, the uncouth object of such wide-spread adulation, the sitter at great men’s feasts, the roc’s egg of great ladies’ assemblies, the subduer of exclusiveness, the leveller of pride, the patron of patrons, the bargain-driver with a Minister for Lordships of the Circumlocution Office, the recipient of more acknowledgment within some ten or fifteen years, at most, than had been bestowed in England upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two centuries at least—he, the shining wonder, the new constellation to be followed by the wise men bringing gifts, until it stopped over a certain carrion at the bottom of a bath and disappeared—was simply the greatest Forger and the greatest Thief that ever cheated the gallows.
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

he told Edith as he gained upon it; she obeyed his orders with prompt dexterity.
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Some time it stood to gloat upon its prey, Then, girding up its strength, began its march.
— from The Angel in the Cloud by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

There he is now, knowing that all this good money he saved by hard labour has gone up in smoke, and paying the loss no more attention that if he'd merely broke a string on that squeaky long-necked contraption he saws."
— from Ma Pettengill by Harry Leon Wilson

At the opening of this session, Mr. Calhoun, again, came forward with a motion for the appointment of a committee, which should consider the question of setting aside the bonus to be paid by the United States Bank to the Government for its charter, and the net annual proceeds received by the Government upon its shares in the Bank, as a permanent fund for internal improvements.
— from The Middle Period, 1817-1858 by John William Burgess

Its fleeting joys and troubled thoughts are drawing rapidly to a close; but if these were the last words I am ever to speak, you must not go unprotected into such society.
— from Modern Flirtations: A Novel by Catherine Sinclair

Kiss me goodnight and go upstairs; I shall be along presently."
— from The Man from Jericho by Edwin Carlile Litsey

If I did not find the military moving, I was to remain at the end of the Green until I should see our men coming in to take possession.
— from Doing My Bit For Ireland by Margaret Skinnider