Dunsey was not without fear that he might meet some acquaintance in whose eyes he would cut a pitiable figure, for mist is no screen when people get close to each other; but when he at last found himself in the well-known Raveloe lanes without having met a soul, he silently remarked that that was part of his usual good luck.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

And ever the splash of his sheaves broke swifter, beating up to hers, and ever the splash of her sheaves recurred monotonously, unchanging, and ever the splash of his sheaves beat nearer.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

5 A secret but universal decay was felt in every part of the public administration, and the emperor himself, though he still retained the obedience, gradually lost the esteem, of his subjects.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

His envoys they sent away the very day and furthermore ordered him never to send another one unless he should render them obedience.
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

[5] para encomiarlos; hoy se recuerdan los nombres y apellidos de los que en nuestros días murieron, para hollar su memoria y deslustrar sus pasadas acciones ...; ¡o tempora!
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

They had scarcely reached the house and had all alighted, when Antoine conducted his sweetheart to a room, so that she might take off her dress, to avoid staining it, as she was going to prepare a nice dish, intended to win the old people's affections through their stomachs.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He soon reached the place he spoke of; and throwing open the folding-doors at the entrance, entered with his usual careless air, and took his seat at a marble table, which chanced to be unoccupied.
— from The Pirate of the Mediterranean: A Tale of the Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

The vulgar, the dissipated, and stupid classes that haunt summer resorts seem to avoid Lake George; even humanity seems to endeavor to be in keeping with its surroundings at this beautiful retreat, and fair women, robust, active men, and healthy children are the rule at this modern Eden.
— from The Cleverdale Mystery; or, The Machine and Its Wheels: A Story of American Life by W. A. Wilkins

[125] into a loud wail, and was so carried fainting from the room; being speedily, however, sufficiently recovered to take my place in the coach that was to bear us Eastward.
— from The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... by George Augustus Sala

With such scenes touching even his own home, Scott must have been constantly taught to balance in his own mind, the more romantic, against the more sober and rational considerations, which had so recently divided house against house, even in the same family and clan.
— from Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) by Richard Holt Hutton

The hearth should rest on what is called a trimmer arch, which is made of brick.
— from Convenient Houses, With Fifty Plans for the Housekeeper by Louis H. (Louis Henry) Gibson

"All the same, I trust you have," she rejoined.
— from The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman

The furnace roared as the bellows gasped, and lit up all the sag-roofed forge, with the dark shapes of men and horses standing round, and the minister holding down the red-hot iron among the coals or beating it on the anvil, while his sweating skin was shiny and crimson in the glow.
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith

Jeanette had waited and watched through the small hours of the night, till nature o'erwearied had sought repose in sleep and rising very early in the morning, she had gone to the front door to look down the street for his coming when the first object that met her gaze was the lifeless form of her husband.
— from Sowing and Reaping: A Temperance Story by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

A change had passed over her heart and the world around her and the persons and events which had so recently composed her universe.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow