Through him a lively interest was awakened in Ireland for the cause of missions among the Jews.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

For two years she wears the hat and lives in a hut by herself, although she is allowed to see other people.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He said once or twice that he meant to have a look into the Wide West shaft if he got shot for it.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Andrea Cavalcanti found his tilbury waiting at the door; the groom, in every respect a caricature of the English fashion, was standing on tiptoe to hold a large iron-gray horse.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Letting Tanya go back to her visitors, he went out of the house, and, lost in meditation, walked by the flower-beds.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Now he has sat down by the hearth and looks in silence at the fire....
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Unable to endure the heartache any longer, I ran into the house and sat down with my father and mother, waiting in silence for some time.
— from The Heart-Cry of Jesus by Byron J. (Byron Johnson) Rees

Why, if only to avoid abandoning his mistress to the rival of whom he was so jealous, he would have been certain to have opened that bag and to have stayed at home to keep watch over her, and to await the moment when she would say to him at last ‘I am yours,’ and to fly with her far from their fatal surroundings.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And finally he compares him with the city fool: Hee may perchance, in taile of a Sheriffes dinner, Skip with a rime o’ the table, from New-nothing , And take his Almaine -leape into a custard.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

Some few times, however, at long intervals, I was allowed to go there; and then I found out that Mr. Barkis was something of a miser, or as Peggotty dutifully expressed it, was ‘a little near’, and kept a heap of money in a box under his bed, which he pretended was only full of coats and trousers.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The bag is hung up to a peg driven into a post of the hut; a lever is put through a loop at the bottom of the bag; the short end of the lever is placed under a chock nailed to the post below; and the woman hangs her weight on the long end.
— from Oregon and Eldorado; or, Romance of the Rivers by Thomas Bulfinch

In truth this unhappy jealousy, this distrust of her husband, appeared to have altered Lady Isabel’s very nature.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

Mr. Bates, affected by the insidious influence of the hour, and lulled into a sense of false security, had gone below to tell his little playmate that she would soon be on her way to the Hobart Town of which she had heard so much; and, taking advantage of his absence, the soldier not on guard went to the forecastle to hear the prisoners singing.
— from For the Term of His Natural Life by Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke

However, it became the Mecca for visitors from all parts of the country, who did not consider their sojourn in the city complete until they had at least inspected what was then one of the most pretentious buildings in New York.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The Highlanders and light infantry, who composed the van, under the particular command of colonel Howe, had been directed to secure a four gun battery defending an entrenched path by which the heights were to be ascended, and to cover the landing of the remaining troops.
— from The Life of George Washington: A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Editions by John Marshall

The house at last: I know the twisted path Under the twisted pear-tree: this I saw
— from The Wild Knight and Other Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Somebody brought The New York American into the house and left it on the floor.
— from Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun

"Well, then, have a look in my pockets and see if you can find it."
— from The Lonely Unicorn: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

These quadrupeds inhabit the sandy deserts of Asia, especially those of Mongolia or the plains north of the Himalaya, and live in droves often consisting of more than a hundred individuals.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys