The solar phenomena are referred to heaven, while those of lightning, rain, and wind belong to the air.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Nikolay, who was always so polite and respectful to his mother, listened to her for some time scowling, but very seriously.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She accepted her host's attentions with simple pleasure, and responded to his airy talk so brightly that he lost no time in assuring his wife after luncheon that his daughter's friend was really "a very nice little girl."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Hence the slightest privileges are repugnant to his reason; the faintest dissimilarities in the political institutions of the same people offend him, and uniformity of legislation appears to him to be the first condition of good government.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The walls rattled a little, and when the King and Queen looked round, the little house had changed into a splendid palace, a royal table had been spread, and the servants were running hither and thither.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

For the central doctrine of Christianity he had so profound a reverence that he recurs to it again and again in his poetry, and at times his feeling seems to carry him to the verge of orthodox belief.
— from Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

Arthur, who was good-natured and fond of children, went through all these ceremonies one day; had the boy to breakfast at the Temple, where he made the most contemptuous remarks regarding the furniture, the crockery, and the tattered state of Warrington's dressing-gown; and smoked a short pipe, and recounted the history of a fight between Tuffy and Long Biggings, at Rose's, greatly to the edification of the two gentlemen his hosts.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

Then, when service was over, Sir Hugh came out arm-in-arm with our aunt, followed by Julia and little Hugh, and talked so friendly and kindly to all the people, and they all smiled and looked so pleased, and replied to him in a way which showed that they were not a bit afraid of him, but knew that he loved them and was interested in their welfare; and Lady Worsley and Cousin Julia talked in the same kind way, and knew everybody and how many children there were in each family, and asked after those who were absent—some at service, and some apprentices, and some in the army or at sea.
— from Foxholme Hall, and Other Tales by William Henry Giles Kingston

Fanny listened to the Spirit's pleadings and resolved that henceforth she would seek to place her affections where "there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning."
— from Tempest and Sunshine by Mary Jane Holmes

Suddenly she paused and rose to her feet.
— from The Vanished Messenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Two days afterwards he left St. Petersburg and returned to his station to resume his duties.
— from The Prose Tales of Alexander Pushkin by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin