They all started; and, with looks of guilty confusion, as if they feared his resentment for having listened to Madame Duval, they scrambled for chairs, and in a moment were all formally seated.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

So the winds, and the storms, and the boys did their work upon it unmolested, and when Arthur came home, the door hung upon one hinge, and there was scarcely a whole light of glass in the six windows.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

These two kindred legends MacDowell has welded into a coherent and satisfying whole; and in a verse with which he prefixes the sonata, he gives this index to its poetic content: "Who minds now Keltic tales of yore, Dark Druid rhymes that thrall; Deirdré's song, and wizard lore Of great Cuchullin's fall.
— from Edward MacDowell: A Study by Lawrence Gilman

The Prince, true to his promise that he would leave the settlement of the government to the Convention, had maintained an impenetrable reserve, and had not suffered any word, look, or gesture, indicative either of satisfaction or of displeasure, to escape him.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

"If you stay here, you'll want to be an officer with a sword, and with lots of gold lace.
— from The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Edward Stratemeyer

Tell him that I am short and fat, Quick in my temper, soon appeased, With locks of gray,—but what of that?
— from Echoes from the Sabine Farm by Horace

She set a dish on the cloth, and as she brought her hand back she laid it on mine quickly, and, looking up with such a warm light of gracious wisdom and approval in her eyes that my heart was like water within me, she said: “Quintin, you are a truer man than I thought.
— from The Standard Bearer by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

For if the hunter see any one to follow skilfully, and with likelihood of good success, he biddeth the rest to hark and follow such a dog, and they eftsoones obey so soon as they hear his name.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison

She never would be strong and well like other girls.
— from The House of Armour by Marshall Saunders