She had accordingly read Drake ’s anatomy from one end to the other.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Suddenly the watchers on the east bank and the west saw horse and rider disappear, swallowed up by the brown waters.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

Hardly daring to breathe, 183 she crept and felt her way over it with her hands, discovering nothing until she had almost reached de Spain’s retreat at the farther side.
— from Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

She had always regarded Durade strangely, wondering that in spite of his kindness to her she could not really care for him.
— from The U. P. Trail by Zane Grey

Vinnie begged of me to go with her instead to the American chapel; she must and would sing hymns, and really did sing them very well.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

The blank-verse tail-piece is finer still in execution; it is, with the still finer companion- coda of Sohrab and Rustum , the author’s masterpiece in the kind, and it is, like that, an early and consummate example of Mr Arnold’s favourite device of finishing without a finish, of “playing out the audience,” so to speak, with something healing and reconciling, description, simile, what not, to relieve the strain of his generally sad philosophy and his often melancholy themes.
— from Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury

"Turn it up," said Hudson, and Ralston did so.
— from Mortmain by Arthur Cheney Train