As she drew nigh to the more fashionable quarter of the town, Kate marked many of this class as they passed by, hurrying like herself to their painful occupation, and saw, in their unhealthy looks and feeble gait, but too clear an evidence that her misgivings were not wholly groundless.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The light of the moon was dimmed, and the whole village was by now bathed in a red quivering glow: black shadows moved over the ground, there was a smell of burning, and those who ran up from below were all gasping and could not speak for trembling; they jostled against each other, fell down, and they could hardly see in the unaccustomed light, and did not recognize each other.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The Rebel batteries by (p. 317) Parker's store sent a half-dozen shots into the Union lines as a signal for the beginning of the contest.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin

The camels looked spectral in the unnatural light, and, besides their outlandishness, there were in the faces and manner of the three visitors an eagerness and exaltation which still further excited the keeper's fears and fancy; he fell back, and for a time could not answer the question they put to him.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

It was good to be here, where there were no sounds except the voice of Nature, singing her eternal song, in the universal language, and where the life of man seemed as distant as the far-down windows that glittered mysteriously out of shadows, as the eyes of a cat glitter at night.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

The British charwoman must go capless, such is the unwritten law; also, she must remain "Miss" or "Mrs.," though the Empire [Pg 123] would totter were the British servant called by anything but her name; and while the servant would "forget her place" were she to know how to do any work outside her own, the charwoman is expected to meet every emergency, and this was in days when housekeeping for me was little more than a long succession of emergencies.
— from Our House and London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

And indeed she is trussed up like a fowl, with one arm round one of the gig davits.
— from White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume I by William Black

His shirt was torn so that the thin, old neck and shoulders could be plainly seen in the uncertain light, and his face was covered with blood that had dried and was now black with dust.
— from Poor White: A Novel by Sherwood Anderson

The only real reward to the prospector for his trouble and expense was the six free claims—hardly a sufficient inducement to undertake laborious, and often costly, enterprises.
— from The African Colony: Studies in the Reconstruction by John Buchan

Turning quickly, he saw in the uncertain light a man of medium height with a dark beard tinged with gray, wearing a loose black cape overcoat and a silk hat.
— from Through the Wall by Cleveland Moffett