The only person whose devotion seemed untinged by any conflicting sentiment was the French valet, Gaston.
— from The Sheik: A Novel by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

On arrival at the Cape, each to assume her identity and disappear from the ken of their fellow-travellers: April to be swallowed up by a Cape suburb, where she was engaged to teach music and French to the four daughters of a rich wine-grower; Diana to proceed to her destination—the farm of an eccentric woman painter, somewhere on the veld.
— from Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley

The Company had been set up by a clever speculating young attorney, but the old man remembered that "that there foreign gentleman, the same as was sent to foreign parts with the poor young squires," was "always a-puddling about in it; and they did say as how he tried to get my lord, and Squire Horsman, and Squire Stympson to see to setting up summut there; but they wasn't never for 'speriments, and there was no more talk of it not till that there young Crabbe got hold, they say, of some little images as he had made, and never rested till he had got up the Company, and begun the works, having drawn in by his enthusiasm half the tradesmen and a few of the gentlemen of the place.
— from My Young Alcides: A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It came nearer; a shadow fell upon the sunny space before her; Jane sprang up, brow and cheeks suffused with a treacherous glow, trembling, incapable even of a cry of surprise.
— from A Hero of the Pen by E. Werner

But, as I regarded the dingy, set faces from the railway's carriage window, it seemed inconceivable that their owners ever could have laughed, or screwed up the skin around their eyes to look out happily under sunny blue skies upon bright and cheery scenes.
— from The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by A. J. (Alec John) Dawson

And how delightful it was to run back barefoot across the soft sand to the beautiful dressing-room of serpentine rock, where one could sit and watch the glittering sea, untroubled by any company save the gulls and cormorants.
— from An Unsentimental Journey through Cornwall by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The sun, undimmed by a cloud, shone genially, and eaves facing the south were dripping, the drops falling like glittering gems.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

After a fair trial, however, it will be found of no more virtue in curing diseases or relieving the animal than the ordinary shoe used by a country smithy.
— from The Mule A Treatise on the Breeding, Training, and Uses to Which He May Be Put by Harvey Riley

Its approach is gradual, and often unsuspected; and the decline to the grave sometimes unattended by any considerable suffering.
— from The Young Man's Guide by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott