Ray was an altogether serious man and had a little sharp-featured wife who had also a sharp voice.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Mrs. Allan has a lovely smile; she has such exquisite dimples in her cheeks.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He filled the girls’ albums with verses and music, and having at last sent Dólokhov the whole forty-three thousand rubles and received his receipt, he left at the end of November, without taking leave of any of his acquaintances, to overtake his regiment which was already in Poland.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

That 'hope deferred maketh the heart sick' was never better exemplified than in my case, for in addition to the perpetual longing to see the face I loved there was always with me a harrowing anxiety lest some accident should prevent me showing Alice in due time that I had, throughout the long period of probation, been faithful to her trust and my own love.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

I used to work at the docks, was living quite respectable, was married and had a little son about five years old.
— from The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches of the Early Colonial Life of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, and Others Who Left Their Native Land and Never Returned by George Dunderdale

"There," he muttered as he at last succeeded in finding a comfortable position, "now I think I can get a little sleep."
— from The Broncho Rider Boys with Funston at Vera Cruz Or, Upholding the Honor of the Stars and Stripes by Frank Fowler

If the sledge stops for only a second, the Men and Horses are lost; safety exists only in flight.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys

"We can black up like colored minstrels, and have a little show in here by ourselves.
— from The Story of a Monkey on a Stick by Laura Lee Hope

Mr. Arnold has a lucid style and is abreast of the thought of his age, but he curiously unites rejection of supernaturalism, [ 21 ] including a personal God, with a fond regard for the Church of England.
— from A Biographical Dictionary of Freethinkers of All Ages and Nations by J. M. (Joseph Mazzini) Wheeler

Wombwell resolved that his rival should not make capital of his loss in this manner, and had a long strip of canvas painted with the words—“The only dead elephant in the fair.”
— from The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost

"Come, give me a hand; and let's see what is behind this rock," and he turned to Bud, who stood near him.
— from The Cave of Gold A Tale of California in '49 by Everett McNeil