Yet it was her almost nightly walk to take this man his supper, though at every square she sat down to rest, and she knew she should receive small word of thanks.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

Laevsky turned into that room and saw Kirilin, and beside him
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

With young folks of her own age it is another matter; she requires a different manner to gain their respect, and she knows how to adopt it without dropping the modest ways which become her.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

For almost another hour the relations and servants kept piling up the funeral pyre which looked like one of those piles of wood that carpenters keep in their yards.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Roy Gardner had sent her white orchids for the reception, and she knew no other Redmond girl would have them that night—when Phil came in with admiring gaze.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

She considered herself, therefore, at full liberty to reveal all she knew to the squire, which she immediately did in the most explicit terms, and without any ceremony or preface.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

At times, she cannot but confess Her other friends are somewhat blind; Her parents’ years excuse neglect, But all the rest are scarcely kind, And brothers grossly want respect; And oft she views what he admires
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

As Nut Street, with the destruction of his little statue, had been wiped out of his history, so the two rooms overlooking the river and steamboats knew Antony Fairfax no more.
— from Fairfax and His Pride: A Novel by Marie Van Vorst

The plateau is three or four hundred feet above the river and Spion Kop about the same height above the plateau.
— from Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith by Spenser Wilkinson

Into this ocean stream ran all the rivers and seas known to them.
— from A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole by M. B. (Margaret Bertha) Synge

Hooker on the right at Sudley; Kearny and Reno next reaching to the turnpike; Porter next, with Sigel in rear; and McDowell commanding Reynolds's, King's, and Ricketts's divisions on the left, near the ground where the Rebels made their last stand in the first battle of Manassas.
— from Following the Flag, from August 1861 to November 1862, with the Army of the Potomac by Charles Carleton Coffin

He put his arm round her gently, and drew her into the ball-room, waltzing slowly as they went, and then, with the sudden impetus of an enthusiastic dancer, he was whirling her round the room, and she know nothing, cared for nothing, in the confusion of light and melody.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

in the purse she spied The ring, and she knew it well.
— from Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse — Complete by Arthur Herbert Leahy

The chief of the party then turned to Roger, and said kindly: "I don't want you to do this, Doughty, unless you feel quite up to it, because confidence is one
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

Was it right for her to tell Roberta all she knew, or must she follow the Domine’s plan and be non-committal.
— from Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia E. Barr

We tumbled into one of the luggers, tumbled out again at the reef, and stood knee-deep in swirling waters while the pilot and his crew towed the craft against a ten-knot current through the boat passage; then aboard once more and away at an eight-knot clip through a maze of coral mushrooms, bumping, grazing, ricocheting, until finally sliding to rest on a glistening coral beach.
— from The Cruise of the Dream Ship by Ralph Stock

With the eyes of the prematurely old, she saw the extent of the ruin, and she knew what would be its effect upon the mother who seldom knew joy.
— from The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger