And Miss Kate read one of the most beautiful passages in a perfectly correct but perfectly expressionless manner.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

In Tranquebar there lives a head mason, who always carries in his betel-nut bag a copper coin bearing the inscription of Konēri Rāyan, one of the later Pāndyans or early Nāyakars.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Kolya ran out of the room, the boys followed him.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are not, however, altogether in darkness regarding the Chawara race, as in the Khuman Raesa, one of the chronicles of Mewar, mention is made of the auxiliaries under a leader named Chatansi, in the defence of Chitor against the first attack on record of the Muhammadans.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

You’re just as plucky as they make ‘em, but I wish you’d keep right out of this.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

And making arrangements to send for Levin and for the guests to wash, one in his room and the other in what had been Dolly’s, and giving orders for their luncheon, Kitty ran out onto the balcony, enjoying the freedom, and rapidity of movement, of which she had been deprived during the months of her pregnancy.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"'Various distances,' Krantz replied; 'one or two very close to the base of it, and others further away.' "'But within a radius of a few miles?' "Krantz nodded.
— from Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell

You are pretty well aware, kind reader, or ought to be, that the situation of your traveller just then was anything but an enviable one.
— from Flagg's The Far West, 1836-1837, part 1 by Edmund Flagg

It has been sought to connect this word with a part of the human body, and esoterically the kiva represents one of the underworlds or womb of the earth from which the races of man were born.
— from Antiquities of the Mesa Verde National Park: Cliff Palace by Jesse Walter Fewkes

In July, 1822, the waters of the Kunir River, one of the small rivers that flow down the slopes of the mountain, were observed to become hot and turbid.
— from The Wonder Book of Volcanoes and Earthquakes by Edwin J. (Edwin James) Houston

came the announcement at the close of this contest, and Kindlings remarked: “One of the five!”
— from For the Honor of Randall: A Story of College Athletics by Lester Chadwick

7:8 Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

This I would propose to recognise in the long ridge called El Kôlah, running out of the Ziph plateau towards the Dead Sea desert, or Jeshimon—a district which, properly speaking, terminates about this line, melting into the Beersheba plains.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

Early the next morning Neale and King rode out on the way to Slingerland’s.
— from The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey

Then the Kings rode out of the city gate, With a clatter of hoofs in proud array; But they went not back to Herod the Great, For they knew his malice and feared his hate, And returned to their homes by another way.
— from Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls by Elva Sophronia Smith

The Rainbow Kimona is a club composed of seven of the Senior Class, each member wearing a kimona representing one of the colors of the rainbow.
— from Three Hats A Farcical Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Shirley