The children all looked at me, as if they expected me to exhibit astonishment or delight at this information.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

He caught her in his arms and strained her yielding form in his embrace; their lips met and met again; a sweet agitation which grew into an ecstasy possessed them both; they seemed to reach and stand on a pinnacle of brightness and delight far removed from the grey levels on which moved ordinary men and women through the shadows of life; they murmured to each other the sweet foolish things that lovers always murmur, and in their ears never was diviner music.
— from The Mystery of Lincoln's Inn by Robert Machray

If they wished to act worthily and sincerely and in accordance with the gravity of the situation, they would have to declare, in union with the most influential Bishops, that the arbitrary and crooked way of managing the Council makes the establishment of any important decrees impossible; that the Vatican Council has lost all moral authority in the eyes of the world, and that the best thing would be to put an end to it with the least sacrifice of its dignity.
— from Letters From Rome on the Council by Johann Joseph Ignaz von Döllinger

[Binny hurries off, L. 1 E.] Wal, now I am alone, I can look about me and indulge the enquiring spirit of an American citizen.
— from Our American Cousin by Tom Taylor

Then looking at me again in that earnest, scrutinizing manner, she said: “I know I can trust you—you will do as I have requested?”
— from Nurse and Spy in the Union Army The Adventures and Experiences of a Woman in Hospitals, Camps, and Battle-Fields by S. Emma E. (Sarah Emma Evelyn) Edmonds

Whether the silica, lime, alumina, magnesia, and iron, that exist in small quantity in plants, be derived from water and the atmosphere, is a question which we are still unable to answer.
— from The History of Chemistry, Volume 2 (of 2) by Thomas Thomson

Shocked, dazed and bewildered, he struck the turf at full length, where he lay as motionless as if the end had come.
— from Don Hale with the Flying Squadron by W. Crispin (William Crispin) Sheppard

The story of Hiawatha—known about the lakes as Manabozho and in the East as Glooskapis the most widely disseminated of the Indian legends.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Complete by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

He knew that the military ardour of his countrymen required to be constantly exercised; and, leaving his kingdom to the wisdom of his counsellors, he led a mighty armament into the enemy’s possessions in Turkey.
— from Lady Eureka; or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future. Volume 2 by Robert Folkestone Williams