He said no more, but slowly waving a benediction, covered his face with his hands, and so remained kneeling, till all the people had departed, and he was left alone in the place.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Bell had whitewashed all the black, smoky walls and boarded ceilings, and scrubbed the dirty window-frames, and polished the fly-spotted panes of glass, until they actually admitted a glimpse of the clear air and the blue sky.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

She was a beautiful creature when she came to you, but, in my opinion, the attractions you have added are infinitely superior to what she received from nature.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

After some time the woman regained consciousness, seemed to know what she was about, but could not tell the investigating justice who had been sent on to take charge of the case, anything whatever concerning the event, the criminal, etc.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He was dressed in a long brown surtout, with a black cloth waistcoat, and drab trousers.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

After this, Sylleus the Arabian being suspected, went away, but came again in two or three months afterwards, as it were on that very design, and spake to Herod about it, and desired that Salome might be given him to wife; for that his affinity might not be disadvantageous to his affairs, by a union with Arabia, the government of which country was already in effect under his power, and more evidently would be his hereafter.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Now did Faithful begin to wonder; and, stepping to Christian (for he walked all this while by himself), he said to him, but softly, "What a brave companion have we got!
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

She, with a bright colour in her lovely face, seemed as one awakened from a dream, and her eyes sought mine with a questioning glance which made me tremble with delight.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Inward bound from the United States with a big cargo, a German torpedo had found a mark on her.
— from Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war by David W. (David William) Bone

We are grateful for the sun instead of to him, and surely we shall look at him with new interest, now that we can picture his tiny messengers, the sunbeams, flitting over all space, falling upon our earth, giving us light to see with, and beautiful colours to enjoy, warming the air and the earth, making the refreshing rain, and, in a word, filling the world with life and gladness.
— from The Fairy-Land of Science by Arabella B. (Arabella Burton) Buckley

When she was a baby, cutting her eye-teeth, she had a spasm; and seeing her straighten herself out and roll back her eyes till only the white balls showed, I took it for granted she was about to die, and, holding her in my arms, I fell on my knees and prayed that she might be spared.
— from Vashti; Or, Until Death Us Do Part by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

It was spoken with a brave carelessness, but he caught the tremor in her voice, and saw her little hand shake as it lay on the table amid her father's papers.
— from Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Towards night the great bell in the Ducal Chapel sounded the warning note, the people rushed to the Piazza to find a battalion of Croats tearing down the Italian tricolor, the people resisted, the soldiers cleared the square with a bayonet charge, but the Venetians had tasted triumph too fully to be dismayed.
— from Builders of United Italy by Rupert Sargent Holland

But the ordeal was yet to come, and though blaming herself, she was anything but comfortable, as the world repaired to the Town Hall, the room where the same faces so often met for such diverse purposes—now an orrery displayed by a conceited lecturer, now a ball, now a magistrates’ meeting, a concert or a poultry show, where rival Hamburg and Dorking uplifted their voices in the places of Mario and Grisi, all beneath the benignant portrait of Nicholas Randall, ruffed, robed, square-toed, his endowment of the scholarship in his hand, and a chequered pavement at his feet.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

She was a beautiful cat, and so gentle and affectionate that the whole family loved her.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders

Great Lakes officers and seamen, who are being called to salt water during the winter season
— from The Men on Deck: Master, Mates and Crew, Their Duties and Responsibilities by Felix Riesenberg

She was a beautiful child, about ten years of age, and when she said she was an American (which means a citizen of the United States) the President patted her fondly upon the head and cried “bueno” (good).
— from The Capitals of Spanish America by William Eleroy Curtis