With a backward flashing glance, she went into the kitchen, and Van Alen, lighting a cigarette, started to explore the old house.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

The dignities we possess at the cost of knowledge and virtue are like jewels for the sake of which one goes hungry and naked; mere glittering baubles for which we barter the soul's prosperity.
— from Means and Ends of Education by John Lancaster Spalding

Her head was covered with a black shawl, and her skirts were black, too, but her hands were clasped about her knees, and visible, and looked white in the dawn.
— from Corleone: A Tale of Sicily by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Osier-beds of all kinds are very attractive "little woods.
— from Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

She has no special weakness, but inherits her mother's sensitive nature, and needs the wisest, tenderest care to keep a very ardent little soul from wearing out a finely organized little body.
— from Eight Cousins; Or, The Aunt-Hill by Louisa May Alcott

Cloom, the old Cloom that had been so jolly in spite of everything, the Cloom of the first three contested, arduous years, then the delightful Cloom glorified by that summer of Blanche and Killigrew and Vassie and little Judith, was dead, and everyone else had flown to other fields while he alone was left among the ruins.
— from Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse

All the afternoon we had several gannets, and many other birds, about us, that indicated we were near land, and at sun-set we kept a very anxious look-out.
— from A Narrative Of The Mutiny, On Board His Majesty's Ship Bounty; And The Subsequent Voyage Of Part Of The Crew, In The Ship's Boat by William Bligh

I once knew a very ardent little student who always gave twenty minutes a day to what she called "rules."
— from Harper's Young People, March 7, 1882 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

She has no special weakness, but inherits her mother's sensitive nature, and needs the wisest, tenderest care, to keep a very ardent little soul from wearing out a finely organised little body.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

He was, as is well known, a very able lawyer, in full practice, while he was making his studies of military history, and winning recognition for almost unique insight and thoroughness in that direction, though I believe that when he came to embody the results in those extraordinary volumes recording the battles of our civil war, he retired from the law in some measure.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

In the afternoon we saw gannets and many other birds, and at sunset we kept a very anxious lookout.
— from A Voyage to the South Sea Undertaken by command of His Majesty for the purpose of conveying the bread-fruit tree to the West Indies in His Majesty's ship the Bounty commanded by Lieutenant William Bligh; including an account of the mutiny on board the said ship and the subsequent voyage of part of the crew in the ship's boat from Tofoa, one of the Friendly Islands, to Timor, a Dutch settlement in the East Indies by William Bligh