But for the last few weeks a new influence had come over Hetty—vague, atmospheric, shaping itself into no self-confessed hopes or prospects, but producing a pleasant narcotic effect, making her tread the ground and go about her work in a sort of dream, unconscious of weight or effort, and showing her all things through a soft, liquid veil, as if she were living not in this solid world of brick and stone, but in a beatified world, such as the sun lights up for us in the waters.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

She suddenly leapt up from her chair with an irresistible impulse and held out her hands, yearning towards me, though still timid and not daring to stir....
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You could help me,” Copper said as she looked up from the pile of cards she was sorting.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

“I think I’ve had the pleasure of meeting you,” he said, looking uneasily first at Anna, then at Vronsky, in fear of losing any shade of their expression.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

So let us for once be more cautious, let us be "unphilosophical": let us say that in all willing there is firstly a plurality of sensations, namely, the sensation of the condition "AWAY FROM WHICH we go," the sensation of the condition "TOWARDS WHICH we go," the sensation of this "FROM" and "TOWARDS" itself, and then besides, an accompanying muscular sensation, which, even without our putting in motion "arms and legs," commences its action by force of habit, directly we "will" anything.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Now and then great shadows loomed up for an instant and were gone—great, silent shadows which seemed to prowl upon padded feet.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

It may be mentioned here, that in subordinate sentences the historical perfect is sometimes loosely used from the writer’s point of view, instead of the more exact pluperfect demanded by the context: as, aliquantum spatiī ex eō locō, ubī̆ pugnātum est, aufūgerat , L. 1, 25, 8, he had run off some distance from the spot where the fighting had occurred .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Thus, in early day, she left us for the company of the dead, and preferred to share the rocky grave of Raymond, before the animated scene this cheerful earth afforded, and the society of loving friends.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For goodness' sake let us forget our prejudices!
— from The Twilight of the Idols; or, How to Philosophize with the Hammer. The Antichrist Complete Works, Volume Sixteen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Government #_Long-form name: Grand Duchy of Luxembourg _#_Type: constitutional monarchy _#_Capital: Luxembourg _#_Administrative divisions: 3 districts; Diekirch, Grevenmacher, Luxembourg _#_Independence: 1839 _#_Constitution: 17 October 1868, occasional revisions _#_Legal system: based on civil law system; accepts compulsory ICJ jurisdiction _#_National holiday: National Day (public celebration of the Grand Duke's birthday), 23 June (1921) _#_Executive branch: grand duke, prime minister, vice prime minister, Council of Ministers (cabinet) _#_Legislative branch: unicameral Chamber of Deputies (Chambre des Deputes); note—the Council of State (Conseil d'Etat) is an advisory body whose views are considered by the Chamber of Deputies _#_Judicial branch: Superior Court of Justice (Cour Superieure de Justice) _#_Leaders: Chief of State—Grand Duke JEAN (since 12 November 1964); Heir Apparent Prince HENRI (son of Grand Duke Jean, born 16 April 1955); Head of Government—Prime Minister Jacques SANTER (since 21 July 1984); Vice Prime Minister Jacques F. POOS (since 21 July 1984) _#_Political parties and leaders: Christian Social Party (CSV), Jacques SANTER; Socialist Workers Party (LSAP), Jacques POOS; Liberal (DP), Colette FLESCH; Communist (KPL), Andre HOFFMANN; Green Alternative (GAP), Jean HUSS _#_Suffrage: universal and compulsory at age 18 _#_Elections: Chamber of Deputies—last held on 18 June 1989 (next to be held by June 1994); results—CSV 31.7%, LSAP 27.2%, DP 16.2%, Greens 8.4%, PAC 7.3%, KPL 5.1%, other 4.1%; seats—(60 total) CSV 22, LSAP 18, DP 11, Greens 4, PAC 4, KPL 1 _#_Communists: 500 party members (1982) _#_Other political or pressure groups: group of steel industries representing iron and steel industry, Centrale Paysanne representing agricultural producers; Christian and Socialist labor unions; Federation of Industrialists; Artisans and Shopkeepers Federation _#_Member of: ACCT, Benelux, CCC, CE, COCOM, CSCE, EBRD, EC, ECE, EIB, EMS, FAO, GATT, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, IDA, IEA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMF, INTELSAT, INTERPOL, IOC, IOM, ITU, LORCS, NATO, NEA, OECD, PCA, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UPU, WCL, WEU, WHO, WIPO, WMO _#_Diplomatic representation: Ambassador Andre PHILIPPE; Chancery at 2200 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008; telephone (202) 265-4171; there are Luxembourg Consulates General in New York and San Francisco; US—Ambassador Edward M. ROWELL; Embassy at 22 Boulevard Emmanuel-Servais, 2535 Luxembourg City (mailing address is APO New York 09132);
— from The 1991 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

To come to a proper conclusion on this subject, let us first examine the three or four great maritime descents attempted by the English during the wars of the French Revolution; a period at which the great naval superiority of England over other nations, gave her the title of mistress of the seas .
— from Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by H. W. (Henry Wager) Halleck

Down they went together, and Sinclair lurched up from under the weight only to be overtaken by many reaching hands from behind.
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

You say, "Let us fight it out like men."
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Startled, she looked up; forked lightning flashed at him from her indignant eyes.
— from Conrad in Quest of His Youth: An Extravagance of Temperament by Leonard Merrick

She looked up from the writing-desk.
— from Melomaniacs by James Huneker

The subject of Saintliness left us face to face with the question, Is the sense of divine presence a sense of anything objectively true?
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

"Come, Court," she said, with a very creditable counterfeit of gay sociality, "let us find a few devotees for Aunt Cynthia and Sallie."
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

“That will do,” he said, looking up from the magazine he was trying to read, not because it interested him in the least, but because it helped to keep the noises out.
— from The Judgment of Eve by May Sinclair

A flight of stone-flagged steps led up from the water to a long, broad verandah which formed part of the house.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore