Stop," she said, suddenly, laying her hand upon his arm, and looking back through the straight avenue of pines; "I ran out of the house by the back way.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

As this was a favourite meal with Mrs. Jennings, it lasted a considerable time, and they were just setting themselves, after it, round the common working table, when a letter was delivered to Marianne, which she eagerly caught from the servant, and, turning of a death-like paleness, instantly ran out of the room.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The "Pacha" is, of course, the repressive and reactionary government, whether that of the Austrians in Lombardy, of the Pope in Rome, or of the petty princes in the minor Italian states.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Bay street, as we pass it, recalls one of the early breweries of York.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

He was in the act of fastening the chain as he stood up, and had passed it round one of the lower boughs, being fairly well screened now from Nat’s observation by the delicate spray, when a fly seemed to tickle his ear.
— from Crown and Sceptre: A West Country Story by George Manville Fenn

To-day in its renewed solitude, its sacred peace, it represents one of the master points of the war, bought and held by a sacrifice of life and youth, the thought of which holds one's heart in grip, as one stands there, trying to gather in the meaning of the scene.
— from Fields of Victory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"I'll get it out," he exclaimed and then he wound his kinky, curly tail around the splinter and pulled it right out of the elephant's foot as quick as a wink.
— from Curly and Floppy Twistytail (The Funny Piggie Boys) by Howard Roger Garis

It soon became tame with me, and in a few days more I had manufactured a bridle and saddle; and, mounting with my bag of roasted piñons, I rode off on the trail for Santa Fé.
— from The Desert Home: The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid

One of the commonest methods and one of the best for handling work of rather large size is to place the piece to be welded on a bed of fire brick and build a loose wall around it with other fire brick placed in rows, one on top of the other, with air spaces left between adjacent bricks in each row.
— from Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Harold P. (Harold Phillips) Manly

The first one Jimmy caught on the point of the chin with a blow that put its recipient out of the fight before he got into it, and then his companion, who was the larger, succeeded in closing with the efficiency expert.
— from The Efficiency Expert by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In every little sanitary precaution I recognise, or ought to recognise, an expression of that same mind as I see it in the Ten Commandments.
— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

With the other male passengers I rushed out of the car.
— from Hours with the Ghosts or, Nineteenth Century Witchcraft Illustrated Investigations into the Phenomena of Spiritualism and Theosophy by Henry Ridgely Evans

Preached it right out of the pulpit—so I guess no girl in these parts could have been hired to wed with him, if he'd wanted.
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram