Ah, you are happy that you haf a home to go in," he said, when she told him, and sat silently pulling his beard, in the corner, while she held a little levee on that last evening.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Ah, you are happy that you haf a home to go in," he said, when she told him, and sat silently pulling his beard in the corner, while she held a little levee on that last evening.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“Come on board, D’Arcy,” said Hanks at length, looking over the side.
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Now let us cut down the bridge; I have broken down the chains that hold it on the other side; if the Franks take it into their heads to pursue us we shall have a long lead over them.
— from The Poniard's Hilt; Or, Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres by Eugène Sue

Salome knew that he had left the house just after midnight to take a walk by the canal, and the watchman had seen him a little later on the towpath.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Then, coming on a great bank of dewberries, she sank down into the yielding heather and gave herself up to enjoyment, finally stretching herself at long length on the springy softness, and watching the lake through her half-closed eyelids.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

If we strike the whale you want to send her astern like lightning, or there’ll be a mess.”
— from The Motor Boys on the Atlantic; or, The Mystery of the Lighthouse by Clarence Young

She had a long list of the people who were coming, all well-known names.
— from Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell