'I am going for a walk, Lavvy,' she said, as she stooped down and kissed her.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

When they reached the haunted house there was something so weird and grisly about the dead silence that reigned there under the baking sun, and something so depressing about the loneliness and desolation of the place, that they were afraid, for a moment, to venture in.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

“I’ve wanted to tell you so a long while,” she added, and moving a few steps away, she sat down at a table in a corner covered with albums.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The princess gave us a sketch of Alexey Alexandrovitch,” said the ambassador’s wife with a smile, as she sat down at the table.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

So she got up and walked about—rather stiffly just at first, as she was afraid that the crown might come off: but she comforted herself with the thought that there was nobody to see her, ‘and if I really am a Queen,’ she said as she sat down again, ‘I shall be able to manage it quite well in time.’
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

Her face fell, however, when she saw that I was a stranger, and she sat down again and asked me the object of my visit.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

As twilight fell, dewy and still, one by one they gathered on the porch where the June roses were budding beautifully, and each groaned or sighed as she sat down, as if tired or troubled.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The voice ceased speaking and silence swung down again upon the little cell.
— from The Crock of Gold by James Stephens

“Now, Monsignor, having scolded you well,” the girl continued, smiling as she sat down again, “I will apologize.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

And the man that was sitting at my left hand only smiled, and said, "Sit down again; you can NEVER leave this place."
— from The Purcell Papers — Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

She sighed as she sat down at the piano and let her fingers roam over the keys.
— from The Adventure Girls in the Air by Clair Blank

On the following day the brigade of light cavalry and the artillery were landed; and on the 7th the whole (excepting three battalions of infantry left to cover the coast) marched to the vicinity of St. Maloes , and during the night the light cavalry, with detachments from the infantry, set fire to the shipping and naval stores at St. Servan, destroyed a fleet of privateers, with a man-of-war of fifty guns, and another of [60] thirty-six, and afterwards retired.
— from Historical Record of the Third, or Prince of Wales' Regiment of Dragoon Guards Containing an Account of the Formation of the Regiment in 1685, and of Its Subsequent Services to 1838 by Richard Cannon

"Then they certainly are hunting down an innocent man," cried Paula with a deep sigh; and she sat down again in front of her toilet-table to finish dressing.
— from The Bride of the Nile — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers