There was only Mrs Quilp at home, and she, little expecting the return of her lord, was just composing herself for a refreshing slumber when the sound of his footsteps roused her.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Dyudya rents some bits of land, keeps a tavern on the highroad, does a trade in tar, honey, cattle, and jackdaws, and has already something like eight thousand roubles put by in the bank in the town.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This was no time or place for explanation or discourse: we had already stood long enough to excite the wonder of the village sight-seers, and perhaps the wrath of the attendant bridal party; though, of course, all this passed in a much shorter time than I have taken to relate, or even than you will take to read it.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“But tell him, Anders,” said Leo, earnestly, “that my white brothers, though few in number, are very strong and brave.
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

As time elapses and the rents emerge in wisely chosen investments, the borrower has a surplus large enough to pay the contract interest.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

she murmured sadly shaking her head as she lead Elaine to the door.
— from The Exploits of Elaine by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

"These freighters will deliver mail and supplies to out-of-the-way settlements that do not have a spaceport large enough to handle the giant freighters and have to depend on surface transport from the larger cities."
— from Sabotage in Space by Carey Rockwell

[247] The porter lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, loud enough to be heard, "Almighty Creator of all things, consider the difference between Sindbad and me!
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Anonymous

Then, when he had each one helplessly at sea looking eagerly to him for some explanation that would fit the case and solve its doubts, he turned abruptly to the dock and pointing to the prisoner, said: "Forget that man; he did not do it!
— from A Master Hand: The Story of a Crime by Richard Dallas

She was something of a mystery to the Achill people, this small moony creature, with her silver fair hair, and strange light eyes, the colour of spilt milk.
— from An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

At Monsieur Destival’s the beds were not taken down because they had a salon large enough to hold a numerous company; the lamps burned well, because they were frequently used; and the punch was good, because Madame Destival knew nothing of that false economy by virtue of which nothing is ever done well.
— from The Milkmaid of Montfermeil (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XX) by Paul de Kock