When a girl of seventeen or a youth of twenty succeeds to some historic throne, we are moved to think of the heavy burden of responsibility laid upon inexperienced shoulders and of the grave issues that must be determined during the swiftly passing years of their early manhood and womanhood.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Books of Chronicles by W. H. (William Henry) Bennett

He looked up in surprise as Orsino entered, then rose and offered him a chair.
— from Don Orsino by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

I had never heard Falconer talk of his own present feelings in this manner; but glancing at the face of his father with a sense of his unfitness to hear such a lofty utterance, I saw at once that it was for his sake that he had thus spoken.
— from Robert Falconer by George MacDonald

And with that there fell a sudden hush over the crowd, for which I was at a loss to account, till, upon looking up, I saw approaching on horseback, a young man in whom I had no difficulty in recognizing the subject of the last remark.
— from X Y Z: A Detective Story by Anna Katharine Green

The sturdy backwoodsman did not seem to place much confidence in the fidelity of his new acquaintance, and bluntly observed to Pierre, “For sure, I never saw an uglier crittur, and his eyes rolled from side to side with an underlook that I don’t half like: perhaps he’ll lead us into some ambush of Upsarokas, or other mountain Ingians, rather than to a herd of deer.”
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

In his mouth he had teeth like unto iron stakes, and one took me and threw me to this Worm which never ceased to eat; then immediately all the [other] beasts gathered together near him, and when he had filled his mouth
— from Egyptian Ideas of the Future Life by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

37 The boy straightened his neck and quickly mumbled closing his eyes: "Little uncle, I shall always obey you.
— from The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man by Maksim Gorky

One glance round, as he battled with his agony, showed how terrible a struggle had taken place; chairs were overturned, a little table, with its load of feminine knick-knacks, lay upon its side, and on every hand there were traces of the strife.
— from The Star-Gazers by George Manville Fenn

There are usually so many words materially false (though not proper lies) used in such actings of good and evil, as is unsavoury, and tendeth to tempt men to fiction and false speaking.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter