But what was still more curious, whoever held his finger in the smoke of the kitchen-pot, immediately smelt all the dishes that were cooking on every hearth in the city—this, you see, was something quite different from the rose.
— from Andersen's Fairy Tales by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

" She embraces me, kisses me and lisps endearments which I heard her lisp when she was still a baby.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Shtchiptsov was silent.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She had to cross the street just when she was saying this to herself.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Some applause has been hastily bestowed on the sublime notion, entertained by that people, of the Deity, whom they neither confined within the walls of the temple, nor represented by any human figure; but when we recollect, that the Germans were unskilled in architecture, and totally unacquainted with the art of sculpture, we shall readily assign the true reason of a scruple, which arose not so much from a superiority of reason, as from a want of ingenuity.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Sure?” “Well,” she put her hand on his arm, “perhaps”—and gave his arm the faintest pressure—“it’s not upstairs, it’s only in the hall—perhaps you’d get me my cape.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

‘For after all, Redmond,’ she would say, ‘you are but fifteen, and you haven’t a guinea in the world.’
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

The sockets were stuffed with linen, and the two ends of the roller were rammed tightly into the sockets.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

She was speaking.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

They were soon stowed away in the big family sleigh, and Jack Ness touched up the team, and away they went, through Oak Run and across the bridge spanning the Swift River—that stream where Sam had once had such a thrilling adventure.
— from The Rover Boys In The Mountains; Or, A Hunt for Fun and Fortune by Edward Stratemeyer

It was he who, on occasion of a nocturnal attack by the enemy on the Roman camp, starting with some squadrons of horse and taking the enemy in rear, compelled him to retreat.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

This is clearly taught by St. Paul in the 11th chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians, where he says: "Whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink the chalice of the Lord unworthily , shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.
— from Reasonableness of Catholic Ceremonies and Practices by John J. (John James) Burke

She was startled and looked about, but saw no one.
— from The Slim Princess by George Ade

The girl felt that she was a prisoner, under sentence for something which she could not understand.
— from The Cricket by Marjorie Benton Cooke

There is, apparently, more than one sequence (as Mr. Spencer would say), but there is also a wide divergence from original type.
— from The Perfect Gentleman by Ralph Bergengren

She was stript of all her ornaments, lest perchance there should be among them some of those amulets which Satan was supposed to bestow upon his victims, to deprive them of the power of confession even when under the torture.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

The soldier was standing in a listening attitude, his head half turned away from the American.
— from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Dr. Hack Tuke in the fourth article of this number says: "I was consulted once in the case of a lady, the most important symptom of whose disease was that she had to count up to a certain number before doing the most trivial thing; when she turned at night in bed from one side to the other, or when she took out her watch, or in the morning before she rose; when she went downstairs to breakfast, she would suddenly stop on one of the steps and count; at the breakfast table when about to take the tea-pot before touching its handle"; etc. (Arithmomania).
— from The Monist, Vol. 1, 1890-1891 by Various

In the same way, sound undulates in the air when passing from one point to another, and thus, also, light travels in space—it is transmitted in successive undulations.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion