Strong in a sense of her advantages she came in stepping softly, and put her hands over her husband’s eyes.
— from The Thirteen by Honoré de Balzac

She could imagine she scored a point.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

The procedure to be followed by the subordinate commander in solving such a problem is described hereafter ( page 102 ) in the discussion of the analysis of courses of action.
— from Sound Military Decision by Naval War College (U.S.)

Meanwhile modern industrialism was gaining steadily over its slave competitor in social strength and political importance and power.
— from Modern Industrialism and the Negroes of the United States The American Negro Academy, Occasional Papers No. 12 by Archibald Henry Grimké

“She certainly is,” smiled Stoker and performed the necessary introductions.
— from Dorothy Dixon Solves the Conway Case by Dorothy Wayne

Such changes, in so short a period of time as three months, might irritate a temper less patient than that of Napoleon the First.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

The marvel was that so much ashes and cinders could come from a single crater in so short a period.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum