The bright Star gleamed unaltered, radiant and large, as it had gleamed for thousands of years, and the air glowed red with tints fresh as roses, crimson like blood.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I did not strike again, so he got up, ran a little way, and began to pick up stones.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Sir Philip threw away the end of his cigarette, and got up rather abruptly, Lady Ashley thought.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

And after he had attained sixteen years, he said to his father—“Wealth gives us religion and love, wealth gives us consideration and renown.”
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

There was little, therefore, to be said on that head; for the rest, he had lived soberly, honourably, industriously; earning his bread in the sweat of his brain, and for the last twelve or fourteen years had been incessantly engaged in the practice of his profession, neither using the sword nor the spear, but salving the bruises and stanching the wounds that men in their madness inflict on one another, and nobly ministering to the yet longer list of ills in the shape of fevers, fluxes, consumptions, apoplexies, cancers, dropsies, &c., &c., that waylay us on our course and give us rest at length.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

So Noll was obliged to set off for Culm alone, consoling himself with the thought that next time, perhaps, he should be so successful as to get Uncle Richard a little farther, and next time a little way farther still, till, at last, they might walk together as uncle and nephew should.
— from Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught by Glance Gaylord

For an hour Croz kept on his way unwearied, cutting the steps for the most part beautifully, but occasionally giving us rather a long stride, where every one held on like grim death, while each man in succession passed.
— from Adventures on the Roof of the World by Le Blond, Aubrey, Mrs.

And then, just where the glare of the lights and watch-fires was most brilliant, there too the black shadows of the cliff had placed the point of intensest darkness, lightening gradually upwards right and left, between the two great jaws of the glen, into a chaos of grey mist, where the eye could discern no form of sea or cloud, but a perpetual shifting and quivering as if the whole atmosphere was writhing with agony in the clutches of the wind.
— from Macmillan's Reading Books. Book V by Anonymous

So Mr. Hawtrey, a British Treasury official, who has given us recently a lucid and sufficiently detailed account of this extraordinary incident—extraordinary but no longer singular, for the same course with the same results has been pursued during and since the war of 1914-1918 by Russia and Poland, and in a greater or less degree by most of the European belligerents.
— from The Paper Moneys of Europe: Their Moral and Economic Significance by Francis Wrigley Hirst

She thinks so much of you having tea in her sitting-room, and beside her fire; which is much more, so to say, cosy than that great unfurnished room, all looking-glass."
— from The Upas Tree: A Christmas Story for all the Year by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay