Then she turned round and took a long, mournful look at grandma's blackness and at Fenella's black coat and skirt, black blouse, and hat with a crape rose.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Breathing heavily, I crammed my extinguished briar into my pocket—re-charged the empty chamber of the revolver—and started to run again toward a light that showed over the treetops to my left.
— from The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer

Although the attacks were several times repeated, and to a late hour in the evening, as the courage of the defenders rose that of the enemy quailed, and the latter efforts were more and more easily repelled.
— from The Sieges of Vienna by the Turks by Karl August Schimmer

The Chians then with the remainder of their ships fled away to their own land; but those of the Chians whose ships were disabled by the damage which they had received, being pursued fled for refuge to Mycale; and their ships they ran ashore there and left them behind, while the men proceeded over the mainland on foot: and when the Chians had entered the Ephesian territory on their way, then since 801 they came into it by night and at a time when a festival of Thesmophoria was being celebrated by the women of the place, the Ephesians, not having heard beforehand how it was with the Chians and seeing that an armed body had entered their land, supposed certainly that they were robbers and had a design upon the women; so they came out to the rescue in a body and slew the Chians. 17.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 2 by Herodotus

A man of your age, you know, cannot be supposed to roll and tumble about like a fool in a pantomime with impunity.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

But her proud black eyes met Victoria's with a passion in them that seemed to resent a touch, a look.
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.