The Bitter Waters Spread MR. IRWINE returned from Stoniton in a post-chaise that night, and the first words Carroll said to him, as he entered the house, were, that Squire Donnithorne was dead—found dead in his bed at ten o'clock that morning—and that Mrs. Irwine desired him to say she should be awake when Mr. Irwine came home, and she begged him not to go to bed without seeing her.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Behind me, I could hear a sudden buzz of conversation as my name was called by the bailiff.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Anon went with money to my tar merchant to pay for the tar, which he refuses to sell me; but now the master is come home, and so he speaks very civilly, and I believe we shall have it with peace.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

His eyes glittered in a head like a modelling in clay; his arms stirred ceaselessly with weaving fingers.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

By the way he met with highwaymen, who stripped him naked; and when the ill news was brought to me, I carried him a suit, and brought him in secretly again to the town, where I took the like care of him as I did of his other brothers.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

“Well, I am a maiden too, and though because I am Empress also, questions of State have to stand before questions of my private modesty, I can have a sympathy for yours—although in truth it did not obtrude unduly when you were my fan-girl, Nais.
— from The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

In March, 1886, I chartered the steamer State of Nebraska , loaded my Indians, cowboys, horses, and stage-coaches on board, and set sail for another continent.
— from An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) by Buffalo Bill

"Mere idle curiosity," he answered, striking at a gorse bush with his stick and watching the melted rime fly out in spray.
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle

The Confederate Government has raised in proportion to its population as large an army as any country ever yet mustered; it could have a still larger force if it had arms to put into their hands.
— from Experience of a Confederate States Prisoner Being an Ephemeris Regularly Kept by an Officer of the Confederate States Army by Beckwith West

Leaping over a third, I had to relinquish her hand for a moment, and then, extending mine once more, I caught hers, and she sprang after me.
— from The Lady of the Ice: A Novel by James De Mille

Though this remark did not succeed in bringing a smile to Eleanor's pale lips, his cheery manner insensibly comforted her, and she turned and walked back to the house with him and Maud, feeling that the load of her trouble was somewhat lightened by their society.
— from The Rebellion of Margaret by Geraldine Mockler