For the love of Heaven, then, put your head out of the window, and you will see as bright sunshine as you have left in Naples." Guasconti mechanically did as the old woman advised, but could not quite agree with her that the Paduan sunshine was as cheerful as that of southern Italy.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

And he would have told the “pitchfork senator” all his experiences, had not Harry Adams and a friend grabbed him about the neck and shoved him into a seat.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Presently Suliman made a sign with his hand that the people should be silent, and said: “I have accepted the crown you have offered me, but only that I may keep it for Prince Darling, who is not dead as you suppose; the Fairy has assured me that there is still hope that you may some day see him again, good and virtuous as he was when he first came to the throne.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

But Old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intuitive; and when the minister threw his startled eyes towards him, there the physician sat; his kind, watchful, sympathising, but never intrusive friend.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He presently got safely beyond the reach of capture and punishment, and hastened toward the public square of the village, where two “military” companies of boys had met for conflict, according to previous appointment.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Hark to the Porter's Shoulder-knot a-creaking!" LXVII.
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

To me, from that hour to the present, she has been a true and sympathizing friend.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Gradually, as time passed, his fears appeared to die away, and he had renewed his former habits, when a fresh event reduced him to the pitiable state of prostration in which he now lies.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The colonel smiled, as he always did, at the prince’s jokes, but as far as regards Europe, of which he believed himself to be making a careful study, he took the princess’s side.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Only he thinks the present Sultan and Caliph
— from India under Ripon: A Private Diary by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

Too magnanimous was he, though, to pass so briefly over the part his prisoner had played in the matter, dwelling at some length on the gentleness and humanity with which the young Indian had treated his little master.
— from Burl by Morrison Heady

The Rev. Mr. Stack, then labouring in the north, in writing home to the parent Society, complained bitterly of the unprincipled white men who had escaped from the chain gangs at Sydney, and who had recently shown themselves so desperate that two were seized and taken to Sydney to be tried at the Assizes on a charge of attempted robbery and murder.
— from The Treaty of Waitangi; or, how New Zealand became a British Colony by Thomas Lindsay Buick

Therefore, as it was high time that Phyllis should be doing something for herself, Mrs. Carey proposed to put her at once into "Robinson's," under Miss Franklin, if Mr. Robinson would receive Phyllis for an apprentice.
— from A Houseful of Girls by Sarah Tytler

But, lady, even though she knows it is her fault, her sin, that has brought her to this plight—still, still , 'tis hard for a poor girl to feel her pains upon her and know she has no friends!"
— from A Modern Madonna by Caroline Abbot Stanley