She began slowly backing away from him into the corner, staring intently, persistently at him, but still uttered no sound, as though she could not get breath to scream.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To Subscribers wishing their Numbers Bound :—We will bind any one year of Wide Awake (in two volumes), in handsome cloth covers, for any subscriber sending us new subscriptions amounting to $5.00.
— from The Pansy, November 1886, Vol. 14 by Various

The seeds swell, and let out rootlets; the rootlets take hold of the ground; old roots send up new shoots, and the trees and the grass begin to grow.
— from Fables for Children, Stories for Children, Natural Science Stories, Popular Education, Decembrists, Moral Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Thank you ever so much, sir," Colin answered; "but I guess I'm booked for college steadily until next summer, and the Bureau of Fisheries during vacation."
— from The Boy With the U. S. Fisheries by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

The behavioral techniques used in these studies are closely related to those employed on human subjects under NASA sponsorship at the University of Maryland ( [ref.89] ).
— from Significant Achievements in Space Bioscience 1958-1964 by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration

He set up no standing army to secure it, partly because he was poor, but yet more because his faith in his position was such that he never dreamed of any effectual resistance.
— from History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green

Springvale worked swiftly, using no signals at the start, which made it apparent that the team had entered the field with a series of plays agreed upon.
— from Dick Merriwell's Trap; Or, The Chap Who Bungled by Burt L. Standish