I moved down the corridor lightly and sprightly, keeping my gait even and measured for the gait-recognition cameras.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Only in odd streaks did she get a poignant sense of acquisition and enrichment and enlarging from her studies; one afternoon, reading As You Like It; once when, with her blood, she heard a passage of Latin, and she knew how the blood beat in a Roman's body; so that ever after she felt she knew the Romans by contact.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

But the thought of her was stabbing him to the heart every moment, like a sharp knife.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the churchyard stands the old weather-beaten yew tree, looking like a sentinel keeping watch over the graves of our forefathers.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

Mr. Sutton confirms the statement that some species uncover their teeth when enraged, whilst others conceal them by the protrusion of their lips; and some kinds draw back their ears.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

I Turn Out A Worthless Fellow—My Good Fortune—I Become A Rich Nobleman IMG With an education which ought to have ensured me an honourable standing in the world, with some intelligence, wit, good literary and scientific knowledge, and endowed with those accidental physical qualities which are such a good passport into society, I found myself, at the age of twenty, the mean follower of a sublime art, in which, if great talent is rightly admired, mediocrity is as rightly despised.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The gentlewomen play with me, and throw me on the bed; and carry me in to my lady; and she kisses me with her oil'd face; and puts a peruke on my head; and asks me an I will wear her gown?
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

2 [a2] go to war over s.t. Maátù lang ang Sába kun giráhun, Sabah will be ours only if we go to war for her.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Tasáa lang ang sabaw kun way yahung, Use cups if there are no soup bowls.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Jo tried to look pathetic, but must have failed, for Mr. Laurence began to laugh, and she knew the day was won.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

She shrank, and yet again she said that she would rather have his cruelty than another man’s tenderness, so long as she knew that she had his—She paused, and did not say the word.
— from The Trespasser, Complete by Gilbert Parker

John and Laura are so kind and hospitable.
— from Village Life in America 1852-1872, Including the Period of the American Civil War As Told in the Diary of a School-Girl by Caroline Cowles Richards

I Turn Out A Worthless Fellow—My Good Fortune—I Become A Rich Nobleman With an education which ought to have ensured me an honourable standing in the world, with some intelligence, wit, good literary and scientific knowledge, and endowed with those accidental physical qualities which are such a good passport into society, I found myself, at the age of twenty, the mean follower of a sublime art, in which, if great talent is rightly admired, mediocrity is as rightly despised.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 04: Return to Venice by Giacomo Casanova

She was hating herself because she had blown her lines and she knew that I knew it.
— from Highways in Hiding by George O. (George Oliver) Smith

It is believed that this operation causes no pain, or even bleeding, and the only remedy adopted is the chewing of a few margosa ( Melia Azadirachta ) leaves, and some kunkumam (red powder) of the goddess.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 3 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The use of naval guns in war operations was not unprecedented; the British used such guns in the Boer War, particularly at Ladysmith and Spion Kop; and there were occasions in which such armament rendered excellent service in the Boxer Rebellion.
— from The Victory At Sea by Burton Jesse Hendrick

Old Missey's name was Miss Liza, an' she kept my ma in de house wid her to wait on her.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

At last a small key was found to open the padlock, which put an end to the poor girl's lamentation, and restored peace and tranquillity among all her friends.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

Supposing herself on the right path she walked onward, till thinking the way rather long she stopped and gazed earnestly around her, and became terrified as she noticed that the trees and rocks, and every other surrounding object had a strange unfamiliar look; and she knew at once that she had taken a wrong path.
— from The Path of Duty, and Other Stories by Harriet S. Caswell

So long as she kept her secret to herself, it mattered nothing to the girl that it was eating pitilessly at her vitality, that it was ever hard and harder for her to keep up her ceaseless round of gayety.
— from On the Firing Line by Anna Chapin Ray