Heston itself was one long straggling street, running parallel to the seashore.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"I don't post letters," said she, rather pettishly.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

All circumstances which, two centuries later, “seemed so ridiculous to the court,” as Sauval says, “that they served as a pastime to the king, and as an introduction to the royal ballet of Night, divided into four parts and danced on the theatre of the Petit-Bourbon.”
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

“Take them if you like!” said Seryozha, raising his eyebrows.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And of these two courses it seems likely that he will in most cases adopt the latter; since such rules are most commonly found on examination to have been relaxed rather for the convenience of individuals, than in the interest of the community at large.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Tom lifted his fist with a menacing gesture; she uttered a loud, shrill scream, ran to the other side of me, and made a face at him.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Long since she revealed to us those arts through which we have attained an abundance of what was once thought to be unattainable, and in the field of individual effort we see that what seemed impossible for many working together to achieve can be accomplished by a prudent man.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

"A doosed small property near Leamington," she said, repeating the words after him.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

"Hm ... m, I see—I'm learning something," Seaton replied cordially.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

For example, land in a wilderness has little or no location value, but if, later, schools, stores, railroads, and other elements of community life develop in that region, the land may take on great value because of its location in the community.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

Shortly after independence was ratified in December 1991, the Ukrainian Government liberalized most prices and erected a legal framework for privatization, but widespread resistance to reform within the government and the legislature soon stalled reform efforts and led to some backtracking.
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency