He must also have long experience before he becomes proficient, and must be acquainted with the different properties of all the coffees grown, or at least of those that come to his market.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Leo did his utmost to deceive himself, and yet every fresh meeting afforded him little else but anxiety and nervous oppression of spirit!
— from The Undying Past by Hermann Sudermann

For thirty winters Wolmer remained in this sad condition, until at length he was borne by his friends in a basket to the newly-founded hospital of St. Bartholomew, where his cure was wrought by a miracle as he lay extended before the altar in the church:— “. . .
— from The Mediæval Hospitals of England by Rotha Mary Clay

A happy smile plays about his mouth, and his large eyes beam with strange light.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

She had only recently gone north to work on munitions, and had, like Ella, been instructed in the working of the electrical cranes.
— from The Bomb-Makers Being Some Curious Records Concerning the Craft and Cunning of Theodore Drost, an Enemy Alien in London, Together with Certain Revelations Regarding His Daughter Ella by William Le Queux

Cassia, with her pale face full in the moonlight, and her large eyes bedewed like morning flowers, listened as he poured out his heart.
— from Victor Serenus: A Story of the Pauline Era by Henry Wood

He caught her again madly, and his lips even brushed her cheek, but she started from his arms and sped the length of the room away from him.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs