A mellow chime floated from the clock-tower of the palace, the deep bell of St. Sulpice echoed the stroke.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

no word was spoken between the two persons so unlike in looks, in mind, in station, and yet linked together by a bond of sympathy strong enough to sweep off these inequalities into the dust.
— from Fashion and Famine by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Soon Cub-hunting troops were abroad, and a yelp Told of sure scent: ere the stroke upon noon Reynard the younger lay far beyond help.
— from Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith

“ How , surprised,” he asked laughing, an easy deep bass chuckle, drawing his small mouth wide and up at the corners; a row of small square even teeth shining out.
— from Deadlock: Pilgrimage, Volume 6 by Dorothy M. (Dorothy Miller) Richardson

Once more in the same high-pitched voice and with an even deeper tinge of scorn, she explained the situation to her companion: “It’s only one of those wretched suffragettes.”
— from Verdun to the Vosges: Impressions of the War on the Fortress Frontier of France by Gerald Campbell

Once disillusion him on this point and his course of study will cease to be to him the sacrosanct affair it has always appeared and he will no longer look upon it as a sort of sacrilege to inject into this course of study some elements that seem to violate the sanctities of tradition.
— from The Reconstructed School by Francis B. (Francis Bail) Pearson

She turned the attack on Bertha, who, by her soft way of speaking, simply encouraged the servants, she declared, in negligence and insolence.
— from Will Warburton by George Gissing