They have killed her for me, and I want to keep her—you shall not have her——” All the men, affected and not knowing how to act, remained standing around her.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He attended her to her carriage, and watched it as it drove off, not toward Audley, but in the direction of Brentwood, which was about six miles from Mount Stanning. About an hour and a half after this, as Robert stood at the door of the inn, smoking a cigar and watching the snow falling in the whitened fields opposite, he saw the brougham drive back, empty this time, to the door of the inn.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Most of the American republics still admit of entails, under certain restrictions; but the French law prohibits entail in all cases.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

She hurried by the train to town, she ran from town to this house, through a raging storm, and presented herself before me in a state of distraction.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

To find clothing seemed no easy task; but Tip boldly ransacked the great chest in which Mombi kept all her keepsakes and treasures, and at the very bottom he discovered some purple trousers, a red shirt and a pink vest which was dotted with white spots.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Not graceful lightness, half-sport, as in the Greek Paganism; a certain homely truthfulness and rustic strength, a great rude sincerity, discloses itself here.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

By the inflection of the anus it can give them any kind of lateral movement, except that it can neither bend nor shorten them, since like a wooden leg, as I have before observed, they always remain stiff and extended [422] .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 2 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

[7] The administration received strong additional evidence of the difficulty that would attend an adherence to the system which had been commenced, in the acquittal of Gideon Henfield.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

Johnny thought this a rather strange arrangement.
— from Whispers at Dawn; Or, The Eye by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell

Tom and Roger stared at each other in amazement.
— from Sabotage in Space by Carey Rockwell

Yet the British empire, with the American republic still an embryo in its bosom, France, North Germany, and other great powers, had hardly then begun their headlong career.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

All this is to come like a thunderbolt, and Russia, Spain, and the rest of the Powers friendly to England will not dare to move a finger to aid her.
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

The light soon glowed through a rosy shade, adorned in a tawdry manner with artificial flowers, and Vernon stepped up to Maunders.
— from The Spider by Fergus Hume

With regard to expenditure, it will be incumbent on all classes to act rigorously so as to prevent waste, but it is not to be expected that the national expenditure as a whole can be greatly reduced as compared with the pre-War standard.
— from Rebuilding Britain: A Survey of Problems of Reconstruction After the World War by Hopkinson, Alfred, Sir

213 Capt. Stedman tells us these larvæ are a delicious treat to many people, and that they are regularly sold at Paramaribo.
— from Curious Facts in the History of Insects; Including Spiders and Scorpions. A Complete Collection of the Legends, Superstitions, Beliefs, and Ominous Signs Connected with Insects; Together with Their Uses in Medicine, Art, and as Food; and a Summary of Their Remarkable Injuries and Appearances. by Frank Cowan