Everybody said that, unless leading men like Nabendu devoted themselves to the Cause, there was no hope for the country.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

“Something of that kind it was that they shouted to us last moon, but we never noticed them.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

The Senator told us lots more about him and his methods, succeeding by sheer brute force and shouting all opposition down.
— from Elizabeth Visits America by Elinor Glyn

"They're not stronger than us, let me tell you!
— from Light by Henri Barbusse

It was in two sections, the upper limb made to be fitted into the handle, which was permanently attached to the lower limb.
— from The Pirates of Shan: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

When the king returned from the feast he saw the ugly little maid he had hired busy at her work about the palace.
— from The Islands of Magic: Legends, Folk and Fairy Tales from the Azores by Elsie Spicer Eells

And here, while preparing for the alarming ordeal I was so soon to undergo, let me present to the reader a slight sketch of myself, mental and bodily; and, as mind ought to take precedence of matter, I will attempt, as far as I am able after the lapse of time, to paint my character in true colours, “nought extenuating, nor setting down aught in malice”.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

And now, lest I forget it, and since it is brought to my mind by what Parson Cutler said to us, let me tell you that this town came very near being named Adelphia.
— from Benjamin of Ohio: A Story of the Settlement of Marietta by James Otis

“Ah!” sighed the ugly little man whose fidgety movements showed his increasing anxiety, “if we could but know what the old German was doing—or in what direction he is working.”
— from The Great God Gold by William Le Queux