Madame Duval did not come to Queen Ann Street till the carriage had waited some time at the door; and then, attended by Monsieur Du Bois, she made her appearance.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

To robbery succeeded outrage, and to outrage murder—all three committed in the very houses of the natives; and they began to murmur, to withhold that goodwill which the Spaniards had so sorely tried, and to develop a threatening attitude that was soon communicated to the natives in the vicinity of Isabella, and came under the notice of James Columbus and his council.
— from Christopher Columbus and the New World of His Discovery — Volume 5 by Filson Young

Here I sat some time, admiring the dresses, and trying at a mirror how the caps became me, till I was interrupted by steps on the stairs.
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett

They stood looking down at the Rambler for a short time, and then disappeared around the angle of a bluff.
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

From now until then I shall travel about the district and try and get customers; and my wife—and Thérèse—will go on with her work here, if you will be so good as to keep her.
— from Woman on Her Own, False Gods and The Red Robe Three Plays By Brieux by Eugène Brieux

Meanwhile three air-ships were placed temporarily at the disposal of the Emperor of Austria, the Kaiser, and the King of Italy, to convey them to their capitals, and furnish them with the means of speedy transit about their dominions, and to and from London during the drawing up of the new European Constitution.
— from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

"So these are the detectives, are they?" asked one of the train robbers, as the two men crouched against the wall of the cavern.
— from Boy Scouts on the Great Divide; Or, The Ending of the Trail by Archibald Lee Fletcher

It is from these four sources that all those doctrines among them are derived, which, however futile they
— from The Lost and Hostile Gospels An Essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline Gospels of the First Three Centuries of Which Fragments Remain by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

It becomes, therefore, a matter of true necessity so to arrange the doorway as to admit of its being fitted with rectangular valves.
— from The Stones of Venice, Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ruskin

"She hopes, she says, to appease the dead and to avert the threatened 'haunting.'
— from Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew