Laevsky turned into that room and saw Kirilin, and beside him
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Its few ruins are still known as Anzio Rovinato.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

In reality, as she knew, the door never clanged: it stood always open; but most of the captives were like flies in a bottle, and having once flown in, could never regain their freedom.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Or, they (Vide Rousseau, and Swedenborg) kindly restore the rib, and make one moral being of a man and woman; not forgetting to give her all the "submissive charms."
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Nevertheless, she made no motion; her hands were at rest, and she kept her face at a due distance from mine.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Ever since the preceding evening, amid all her amazement, even in her sleep, she had been thinking in her little childish mind of that man who seemed to be so poor and so sad, and who was so rich and so kind.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Yet it was her almost nightly walk to take this man his supper, though at every square she sat down to rest, and she knew she should receive small word of thanks.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

But what is contemplation without the knowledge of permanent forms, on which the mind may find repose, and so keep itself from being perplexed by the shifting aspects of the many-coloured universe?
— from Valerius. A Roman Story by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart

And even if tonight she conceded this point to George, and Mamma was banished, sooner or later resentment, bitter and uncontrollable, would rise again, she knew, in her heart.
— from Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby by Kathleen Thompson Norris

"We were running at six knots, so that taking into consideration the strength of the ebb, our rate over the ground was a bare three knots, thus allowing an ample margin to bring up should we sight an obstruction."
— from The Sea Monarch by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

She was alarmed, and said she would reveal all she knew if I swore to keep it to myself.
— from Cord and Creese by James De Mille

"Keep against the rock, all!" said Kenton, who was in the lead.
— from The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes; or, On the Trail of the Iroquois by St. George Rathborne

In the distant meadow I can see stacked rifles and sodden knapsacks; but not a man is afoot.
— from 'Neath Verdun, August-October, 1914 by Maurice Genevoix

"A watchcoat, a piece of pipe-clay, and a button-brush," compose rather a scanty kit: yet those three articles formed—with the exception of the clothes he stood in—the entire wardrobe and means of personal adornment of the Rooney above-named; and many of his comrades were scarce better provided.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

Your uncle, I understand, received a stately kind of education within the castle walls; and your father, happier because of less consequence, passed his early years with other young men of fashion at school and at college.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

Then, in words brightened by the nectar of a smile, and transfused with overflowing love, he reverently asked: ‘Say, Keyūraka, is the lady Kādambarī well, and her friends, and her retinue, and the lady Mahāçvetā?’
— from The Kādambarī of Bāṇa by Bāṇa‏