His pipe lying on the table smelt strongly of stale tobacco, and Burkin could not sleep for a long while, and kept wondering where the oppressive smell came from.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Lady Crawley is made to put on the brightest pea-green in her wardrobe, and my pupils leave off their thick shoes and tight old tartan pelisses, and wear silk stockings and muslin frocks, as fashionable baronets' daughters should.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The program logs on to the service.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The ground, or works, occupied by our left could be held by a thin picket line, owing to the stream and swamp in front.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Mr. Morris was very active in his duties there; and while he communicated officially to Jefferson and Hamilton everything necessary for them to know, he kept Washington constantly apprized, by both public and private letters, of the true state of affairs in France, His accounts revealed shocking
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

Mr. Pennant likewise observes that the scales of the latter easily drop off, whereas those of the Pilchard adhere very closely.
— from A Guide to the Mount's Bay and the Land's End Comprehending the topography, botany, agriculture, fisheries, antiquities, mining, mineralogy and geology of West Cornwall by John Ayrton Paris

All paths lead out to the sea, where a day's voyage may teach that the receding circle bounds our sight alone, and not the deep.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

This time, having but little leisure, I rode in an automobile from one end to the other through and along the path, looking occasionally toward the sky for air-ships that were due to alight there on their way from Chicago to New York.
— from The French in the Heart of America by John H. (John Huston) Finley

I’m the most peaceable lad on the team, Slim Staples, and you know it.”
— from Right Guard Grant by Ralph Henry Barbour

With that I thought he had some wondrous great undertaking in hand, for papers and pens lay on the table: so I tendered him my services for all honourable ends, adding thereto that I should hold it for a great honour indeed if I were fortunate enough to do him service to his liking.
— from The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jakob Christoph von Grimmelshausen

So saying, the captain scuttled down the poop ladder on to the spar-deck in a jiffey, and in another second he was descending the main hatch, whence the smoke could be now clearly seen, coming up in clouds.
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

These two who are coming in with the bodies of the Morales [167] brothers probably have worn-out horses, or perhaps Lee ordered them to stay and guard the safe.
— from Foes in Ambush by Charles King

The inner surface is applied directly to the papillary layer of the true skin, and follows closely its inequalities.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

On the opposite side of the room from him were two doors, one of them, the one to the left, open—and the flashlight, playing through, disclosed a passageway leading, obviously, to the shop at the front, and continuing to the stairway.
— from The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard