It seemed as if Cedric's words had raised a spectre; for, scarce had he uttered them ere the door flew open, and Athelstane, arrayed in the garments of the grave, stood before them, pale, haggard, and like something arisen from the dead!
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

To all appearances, it was an occasion for preaching him a little sermon, and of impressing the Bishop on the convict, so that a mark of the passage might remain behind.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Each of the long poems and his play have a love story as the centre of interest, but the lovers are usually children, and their love utterly without complications.
— from Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence by Charles Alfred Downer

The noise of the dancing and festivity in the distant picture-gallery did not penetrate here, and Lorimer sat at the organ, drawing out a few plaintive strains from its keys as he talked.
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

The Π was still a , and the P had a little stroke added to it ( ) for the sake of distinction.
— from Palæography Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination by Bernard Quaritch

The Acropolis of the ancient Athens extended to the Ilissus and Eridanus, and included the Pnyx, and the Lycabettus on the opposite side to the Pnyx, having a level surface and deep soil.
— from Critias by Plato

“My husband has always proved himself a loyal subject; and surely naught but the most aggravated offence would drive him to commit treason against your Majesty.
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

'I know who could please me,' sighed forth William, 'but I can't please her.' Alice looked sharply at him from over her spectacles, which she had put on the better to think about the disposal of her property.
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Ted petted him and looked somberly at the forest.
— from Double Challenge by Jim Kjelgaard

At other points hotels and lunch stations are maintained through the park season.
— from Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana by Robert Vaughn

Torrini and Robert-Houdin made an approach to the unadorned simplicity of an actual drawing-room, altho Robert-Houdin seems to have permitted himself a long shelf at the back of his stage on which his various automatic figures were assembled awaiting their summons to take part in the program.
— from A Book About the Theater by Brander Matthews