"What is that?" asked the old man, loosening his arm, standing still, and looking Luke shyly in the face.
— from Urith: A Tale of Dartmoor by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

But soon after he was installed in the little apartment on the third floor, with the furniture rigorously required by all members of his noble profession,—for the guild of barristers admits no brother unless he has a suitable study, a legal library, and can thus, as it were, verify his claims,—Theodose de la Peyrade began to practise as a barrister before the Royal Court of Paris.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

But she could not have daddy come home and see such a looking living-room.
— from Janice Day, the Young Homemaker by Helen Beecher Long