At her leisurely three-quarters speed the engines ran noiselessly and the twin screws turned well below the water-line in the flat calm.
— from The Diva's Ruby by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

She was filled with armed men, and in her cabin was a commission signed by Jefferson Davis in the name of the Confederate States, also a plan for capturing the forts of the harbor, the Panama mail steamer, then en route north, and a treasure steamer soon to, sail for Panama.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

[Pg 8] Five years ago Miss Jamison had come into this shabby though eminently respectable neighborhood, and opened a small boarding-house in a neighboring street.
— from The Long Day: The Story of a New York Working Girl, as Told by Herself by Dorothy Richardson

Two earrings, evidently belonging to the same set, had been mounted as pins, and gleamed on the black lace partly covering Mrs. Turke's grey hair, which was cut in a straight fringe above the shrewd, twinkling eyes, Roman nose, and firm, well-shaped mouth and chin.
— from Barbara Rebell by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Of the mustard poultice that sometimes these excursions rendered necessary, and which could not be endured unless he submitted to a similar infliction; of the delightful dolls' tea parties; of the fairy tales, translated solely for her amusement from the French and German; of his selections from Thackeray and Dickens, whose characters were thus made living people to her; of the wonders that awaited her on S. Valentine's Day, when, through his skilful management, twenty or thirty valentines were to arrive for her from different parts of the country; of the choice variety of sweets he purchased for her stocking at Christmas; of all this, I wish I could discourse at greater length.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The idea of a forgiving and tender mercy in the Supreme Being, exercised towards a creature whom justice would send to eternal retribution, nowhere appears in the best pagan ethics.
— from Sermons to the Natural Man by William G. T. (William Greenough Thayer) Shedd

"He swears to everything," replied Ned, "and I know that he is the kind to make a trusty comrade to the death."
— from The Texan Scouts: A Story of the Alamo and Goliad by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler