Instantly the youngster began to yell, scream and wave his arms long before anyone could have possibly heard him.
— from James Oliver Curwood, Disciple of the Wilds by Hobart Donald Swiggett

Mr. Britling, from his praise of the enterprise that had at last brought a car he could drive within his reach, went on to that favourite topic of all intelligent Englishmen, the adverse criticism of things British.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The old man shook his head and leaned back again, closing his eyes.
— from A Marriage Under the Terror by Patricia Wentworth

So pleasant was it to find him at last beside a clean hearth, warm and tidy and well cared-for, that I could not refrain from congratulating him.
— from Memoirs of a Surrey Labourer: A Record of the Last Years of Frederick Bettesworth by George Sturt