To all this the yeomen listened in silence, the clatter of many voices, jesting and laughing, sounding around them, and the red light of the fire shining on their faces and in their eyes.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

I am growing old, the grey hairs thicken upon me, my joints are less supple, and, in mind as well as body, I am less enterprising than in former years.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

He knew what bloaters were, of course, and had heard that they were herrings just a little salted and smoked over burning wood, but how was he to know that at Yarmouth there was a great fleet of herring-boats, and that in the cold November weather they went far out to sea in the mist and rain, and were night after night hauling in the great nets full of glistening silver fish?
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

This former hot-bed of chouans was an appropriate birthplace for a heroine of romance—and there, on April 10th, 1806, was born Julienne Joséphine Gauvain, subsequently known as Mademoiselle Juliette, and later still, as Madame Drouet.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Uniting these various influences, they found it easy to frame a conception of Zeus, or the world, or the universal justice and law, so as to combine in it a dynamic unity with a provident reason.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Gibelotte, knowing Joly and Laigle, set a bottle of wine on the table.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Besides the soldiers who formed the picket line on either side, there were many curious onlookers who, jesting and laughing, stared at their strange foreign enemies.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

To Doctor Carey, Jane Aydelot looked scarce a day older for the dozen years gone by.
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

These answering jacks and line signals are distributed in groups along the face of the board so that each operator will receive her proper quota of the originating calls which she will [
— from Cyclopedia of Telephony and Telegraphy, Vol. 2 A General Reference Work on Telephony, etc. etc. by American School of Correspondence

It seems just a little squat and fat-as if it were too heavy on top and splayed out at the sides and bottom.
— from An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery by Sheldon Cheney

He is just a little slow and ponderous, and I should scarcely give him credit for a profound or brilliant intellect; but he is certainly sensible, well-informed, and he gave me the idea of being the very essence of truth."
— from The Lovels of Arden by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

When the latter had gone clattering down again Clem removed his jacket and looked speculatively about him.
— from Right Tackle Todd by Ralph Henry Barbour

I met one of our johnnies at Liverpool Street, and he was a little excited about it.
— from The Honeymoon: A comedy in three acts by Arnold Bennett

A sailor ought to marry a girl from the inboard, who doesn't know a scow from a full-rigged ship and is just a little scart at sight of salt water.
— from Under Rocking Skies by L. Frank (Lewis Frank) Tooker

Highbury Barn , first a small ale and cake house, and afterwards a place of public entertainment, including a theatre, was so called from its occupying the site of a barn-like structure originally belonging to the ancient Priory of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, and left standing after the incursion of Jack Straw and his rebellious companions [ see ante , Jack Straw’s Castle ].
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

Pierson looked at the young man, whose long, narrow face; where one sandy-lashed eyelid drooped just a little, seemed armoured with a sort of limited omniscience.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy