which she had delivered very seriously and with a mixture of modesty and resolution, she kissed her elderly friend in a manner which indicated esteem and gratitude rather than love.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

At the Shakespeare cottage, in the stillness of the room where he was born, the spirits of mystery and reverence still keep their imperial state.
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter

By intuition as much as reason, she knew that there was something working in his mind, something that troubled him and might trouble her.
— from The Protector by Harold Bindloss

At eight o'clock to-morrow morning." " A rivederci ," said Kilrush, with a mocking smile, waving an attenuated hand, as the churchman and his satellite withdrew.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The young man alone remained silent, keeping constantly fixed on the Image his eyes, from which gushed two streams of silent tears.
— from The Triumph of Death by Gabriele D'Annunzio

Thirty miles from Fort Chipewyan the Rocher, uniting with the main channel of the Peace, makes a resultant stream known as the Slave, down which we pass in an incomparable summer day, our hearts dancing within us for the clear joy of living.
— from The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron

Swag-bellied, short of wind; liable to rages, to utterances of a coarse nature; a decidedly ugly, monstrous and rather stupid kind of man.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 10 by Thomas Carlyle

"Methinks, Allan Redmain," said Kenric, "that 'tis you who have come with me to Arran, not I with you, and I beg you to at once return with me."
— from The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263) by Robert Leighton

That such work could be achieved in a very short time is shown at Teotihuacan, where the pyramids are but an assemblage of mud and rude stones kept together by walls faced with coatings of polished cement.
— from The Ancient Cities of the New World Being Travels and Explorations in Mexico and Central America From 1857-1882 by Désiré Charnay