She had a preoccupied look, and she made her apologies for being late rather absently.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

He had evidently in his thoughts, what was indeed manifest in his previous letters, a speedy marriage with his beloved Aloysia.]
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Subsequently a peculiar luminous and sinuous marking appeared on the unillumined half of the inner planet, and almost simultaneously a faint dark mark of a similar sinuous character was detected upon a photograph of the Martian disk.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Thus like an elephant forced to brook The goading of the driver's hook, Quick panting like a serpent maimed, He fell to earth with rage inflamed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And I had very little difficulty in discovering which were the favorite poems of the Soodopsies, for, as you may readily suppose, these were polished like a silver mirror by the shuffling of the many thankful feet over their sweet and soulful lines.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

The dative is often added to the entire sentence, where either a genitive or a possessive pronoun limiting a substantive might be used.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The present lust and shift made for Kings lives, Against the pure forme and just power of law, 55 Will thrive like shifters purchases; there hangs A blacke starre in the skies, to which the sunne [Pg 283] Gives yet no light, will raine a poyson'd shower Into your entrailes, that will make you feele How little safetie lies in treacherous steele.
— from Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman

That incident, however, had belonged to a stage in his past life, a stage marked by a certain prolonged tumult of the senses, on which he now looked back with great composure.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Within the porches lay a stagnant marsh of suppliants, through whose centre trickled to and fro that stream of ooze.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Panting like a spent man at the end of a long run, Lem now fell down on his knees in his copious gratitude.
— from The Red Debt: Echoes from Kentucky by Everett MacDonald

He 'vide up de pig litters and such 'mongst dem.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Going to the door and looking wisely into the gray sky and noting the direction of the wind, the latter replied that he thought the shower would probably last about six months, an opinion that of course disgusted the fault-finding Briton with the "blawsted country," though in fact it is but little if at all wetter or cloudier than his own.
— from Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

In order to reach Montgomery I took passage in one of the high-pressure steamers of the Alabama river, and during the two days and nights of the trip I was surrounded by a throng of sympathizing, interested passengers, whose tender tones and gentle touch was as a cool, refreshing draught to parched lips, a sweet morsel to the tongue, for human hearts ever hunger and thirst for affection.
— from The World As I Have Found It Sequel to Incidents in the Life of a Blind Girl by Mary L. Day

The other wheels at this plant receive water drawn from the same creek by a pipe line about six miles long.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

Hastening his preparations as much as possible, he descended to that apartment, and was instantly saluted by a flourish of rhetoric still more formidable; for that "very great, and wise old Leoninus," forthwith began an oration, which promised to be of portentous length and serious meaning.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley