Stephen at last sat upright sideways in his chair, leaning one hand and arm over the back and looking at Maggie.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

It was an hour later before she at length settled upon satisfactory concealment for the incriminating jewel-case--in the recess behind a bureau-drawer, where it fitted precisely in the wrappings she did not trouble to remove.
— from Nobody by Louis Joseph Vance

Such a love, so unfathomable, subsisting between myself and my eldest sister, under the circumstances of our difference in age (she being above eight years of age, I under six), and of our affinities in nature, together with the sudden foundering of all this blind happiness, I have described elsewhere.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various

He at once bounded forward to assist his friend, when at the first step he took he saw a leopard spring upon Simba with a terrific cry.
— from My Kalulu, Prince, King and Slave: A Story of Central Africa by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

As soon as Lisele saw us she ran forward and threw her arms round me, and then embraced Maud, calling us her dear sisters, and telling us how rejoiced she was to come back.
— from Mary Liddiard; Or, The Missionary's Daughter by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Well, wherever I am," he said at last, "send up some kind of a car for me and have a taxi waiting outside."
— from Occasion for Disaster by Randall Garrett

Bechamel Sauce 1 tablespoon butter 1 tablespoon flour 1/2 cup thin cream 1/2 cup white stock—chicken or veal salt and pepper Melt butter in saucepan; stir in flour; reduce heat; add seasoning and liquid, stirring until smooth.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company

At this the king was abashed and put down his sword, and looked sorrowfully upon Sir Lancelot.
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert