He did not see her, but she, catching her own reflection in a window, wondered at the colour burning in her cheeks.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"That is a great clue, considering there are about a score covers here of rival dinginess," said Stephen, drawing out the canterbury.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

In those days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell confidently: and this is the name which they shall call Him, Our righteous Lord."
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She causes her own royal brother's head to be cut off, and herself carries it by the hair to Hagen.
— from Women of the Teutonic Nations by Hermann Schoenfeld

In a clinging sea-green gown, cut here and there to show her inevitable legs, with marguerites and corn-flowers in her unbound hair, she circled her own reflection, languid, pale, desolate; then slowly gaining the abandon needful to a full display, danced with frenzy till, in a gleam of limelight, she sank into the apparent water and floated among paper water-lilies on her back.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Without noticing the interruption, Servadac continued his own remarks, “The comet then, I see, is to reach its aphelion on the 15th of January, exactly a twelvemonth after passing its perihelion.”
— from Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne

Among these we find a copy, in Sprot’s ‘course hand,’ or rapid current hand, of Letter IV, and another of Letter I, but no such copies of II, III.
— from James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang

They afford a rule as such in Taxation; but are Citizens intrusted in the General Government, no more than Cattle, Horses, Mules or Asses: and a Gentleman in Debate very pertinently observed that he would as soon enter into Compacts, with the Asses Mules, or Horses of the Ancient Dominion as with their Slaves—When there is power to raise a revenue by direct Taxation, each State ought to pay an equal Ratio; Whereas by taxing Commerce some States pay greatly more than others, [555] Before the South Carolina House of Representatives C. C. Pinckney said: We are at a loss, for some time, for a rule to ascertain the proportionate wealth of the states.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 by Various

As we said, he loved his only brother; and so vivid were Maura's representations of his virtues, that Hugh, his passion having subsided, was usually borne away by the pathos with which she closed her observations respecting him.
— from Lha Dhu; Or, The Dark Day The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

When they reached the desired point the night was well advanced, and yet dark with the somber clouds hanging over river and fort and field of battle.
— from The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler