She showed her ring exultingly; she called herself Madame la Comtesse de Hamal, and asked how it sounded, a score of times.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

For, on a rough estimate, Sinaketa could have produced some twenty canoes; the Vakutans could have joined them with about forty; the Amphlettans with another twenty; and twenty more would have followed from Tewara, Siyawawa, and Sanaroa.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

r ear, she clasped her hands together, uttered one cry, and would have fallen, had not George caught her.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

This rather extravagant sounding claim Harford contested—Pape had hoped he would, while fearing he wouldn’t.
— from Lonesome Town by E. S. (Ethel Smith) Dorrance

Over and over in that voice's slender music—plaintive, laughing, reaching everywhere so clearly—he heard the detested “line”: “What are you two good people conspiring about?”
— from Harlequin and Columbine by Booth Tarkington

A large number of people, if asked what Sir Creighton had invented, would reply “Electricity,” so closely has his name become associated with the development of this power and its adaptation to the various necessities of modern life.
— from According to Plato by Frank Frankfort Moore

This we know that he did, at the personal interview on the 28th of December; and he did it in order “to bring the whole subject before the representatives of the people in such a manner as to cause them to express an authoritative opinion on secession and the other dangerous questions then before the country, and adopt such measures for their peaceable adjustment as might possibly reclaim even South Carolina herself; but whether or not, might prevent the other cotton States from following her evil and rash example.”
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

He deserts his ship at San Francisco and starts out to become a backwoodsman, but rough experiences soon cure him of all desire to be a hunter.
— from Dan, the Newsboy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

SEE SNODGRASS, R. E. SNOW, CHARLES H. Cardigan cowboy.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

In fact, there were but few present in whose veins New England blood did not run, except some curious hearers who had come from a natural desire to see and hear a celebrated man.
— from Trumps by George William Curtis