I remembered how lonely and strange that old sleeping car had seemed to me as a kid.
— from The Night of the Long Knives by Fritz Leiber

The arrow rose, flew straight, descended, struck the beast, and started again into the air, doubled like a letter V. Quickly Photogen snatched the other, shot, cast his bow from him, and drew his knife.
— from Stephen Archer, and Other Tales by George MacDonald

Her eyes were very large and some critics said that she was in the habit of making play with those eyes, but the fact is that nature had made them so to shine and to look, that they could no more help so looking and shining than one star can help being brighter than another.
— from Boys and Girls from Thackeray by Kate Dickinson Sweetser

Appearing like his brother it was the brother mixed with some type of shadowy creature he could not comprehend and this being, familiar and unfamiliar, he loathed.
— from Corpus of a Siam Mosquito by Steven David Justin Sills

He was standing almost in his path, and, by stepping to one side, could have saved him a small detour round a pile of boxed supplies; but he did not move an inch, stiffening, instead, delighted at obstructing him.
— from In Old Kentucky by Charles Turner Dazey

—When Reginald Heber read his prize poem, "Palestine," to Sir Walter Scott, the latter observed that, in the verses on Solomon's Temple, one striking circumstance had escaped him, namely, that no tools were used in its erection.
— from The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection by Various

"Do not be impatient, my fine fellow," said the old soldier, continuing his preparations with the phlegm natural to him; "one of the most essential qualities in arms is sang-froid.
— from The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental by Alexandre Dumas

She had nobody to communicate her sentiments to, or she could have been eloquent on the subject.
— from Diana by Susan Warner