(p94) Además, ¿qué apoyo (a juicio de Manos-gordas ) podría hallar en las leyes ni en las autoridades de España un extranjero, un mahometano, un semi-salvaje, para adquirir la Torre de Zoraya , para hacer excavaciones en ella, para entrar en posesión 05 del tesoro o para no perderlo inmediatamente con la vida? —¡No hay remedio!—díjose por remate de largas reflexiones.—¡Tengo que confiarme al renegado ben-Munuza!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Blinds were closed up and down the avenues, where people had either long left their houses vacant or were sheltering themselves in depths of gloom in the tomb-like coolness of their double walls.
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

“Poor heart!” exclaimed Lady Lisle, who sat in the window.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

“I am sure I am very pleased to meet you all, and I am sure we shall all be firm friends before long,” said Mr. Dauntrey, pleasantly, his eyes lingering longer on Dorothy than any of the rest.
— from Dorothy's Tour by Evelyn Raymond

Save for this cautious prompting he would probably have ended like Lermontov or Poushkin.
— from All Things are Possible by Lev Shestov

In short, could Pennsylvania and Maryland be induced to join us in an expedition of this nature, and to petition his Excellency Lord Loudoun for a small train of artillery, with some engineers, we should then be able, in all human probability, to subdue the terror of fort Du Quesne; retrieve our character with the Indians; and restore peace to our unhappy frontiers."
— from The Life of George Washington, Vol. 2 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States by John Marshall

As Mr. Carlyle left Sir Peter’s presence, he encountered Lady Levison.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

For a moment he rested the foot of the monstrance on the child's head, and the mother herself pressed her eager, longing lips to it; and, as they started off again, she wished to remain behind the canopy, and followed the procession, with streaming hair and panting breast, staggering the while under the heavy burden, which was fast exhausting her strength.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 by Émile Zola

Every time Dr. Tucker saw that park, his eyes looked like the eyes of his school children when they were hungry.
— from Under Many Flags by Elsie Singmaster