He did not want the warm clover and the play of seeding grasses; the screens of quickset, the billowy drapery of beech and elm seemed best away; and with great cheerfulness of spirit he pushed on towards the Wild Wood, which lay before him low and threatening, like a black reef in some still southern sea.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

But there was something compelling in the cool, sweet, quiet voice which came over the line, and before realizing it she had promised to meet her at eleven o'clock.
— from Money Magic: A Novel by Hamlin Garland

The gondoliers have regular calls, "To the right," and "To the left," and by rights I should have used them, too.
— from My Life by Josiah Flynt

From his pocket-book David produced her frayed letter, and Bulmer read it slowly, aloud, through eyeglasses held at a long focus.
— from The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy

The London and Birmingham Railway is stated at 3,000,000 l.
— from Remarks on the Proposed Railway Between Birmingham and London by Anonymous

There was in the manuscript a still earlier, and perhaps better, version of the first two lines: Daphnis and Strephon led their flocks along, Both famed for love and both renowned in song.
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

After the death of his father, the able and learned Niccolo III., who first established his throne on sure and safe foundations, Ercole's two elder half-brothers, Leonello and Borso, reigned in succession over Ferrara, and kept up the proud traditions of the house of Este, both in war and peace.
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright

And I wrapped myself in grief and anger--I cast hope away from me like a bloody rag, I sprang into the breach with scornful laughter.
— from Morituri: Three One-Act Plays Teja—Fritzchen—The Eternal Masculine by Hermann Sudermann