'How am I looking?' she smiled.
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

"I am sure Lord Brandolin is in love with her, awfully in love," she says, as she peers into the distance, where the black form of Satan is just visible through far-off oak-boughs.
— from A House-Party, Don Gesualdo, and A Rainy June by Ouida

Writing of her arrival in London, she said: 'I had my luggage put on the backs of two porters, and walked on to Cheapside, when I presently found a Chelsea omnibus.
— from Thomas Carlyle by Hector Macpherson

“In the full grown male the bill is about half an inch long, straight, somewhat blunt, broad and flat at the base.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein

“Sybella may as well make her debut in society here as in London,” said Sir Marmaduke.
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

Animated by a habit of keeping his accounts in life square, steady in his stand as the mountain peaks that surrounded his home ranch, his courage fortified against fear because he recognized it at first sight and refused to yield to it, he was biding the right time to betake himself “down-town” for the round-up reckoning.
— from Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance

exclaimed Mr Lathrope when the whole party were gathered together on the shore of Hillsborough Bay, united once more after the boat-carriage had been lugged over its final portage, and the boat itself had accomplished its last separate short trip before adventuring again on the open waters of the sea—“I guess your fifteen miles has come to a considerable sight more’n fifty, you bet.”
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson