And with a movement of impatience he turned to retrace his steps.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

This argument had such a convincing ring that it gave Mrs. Peniston sufficient reassurance to pick up her work, while she waited for Grace Stepney to rally her scattered forces.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Mrs. Maylie was anxiously waiting to receive her son when he reached the cottage.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

His sense of her inferiority—of its being a degradation—of the family obstacles which judgment had always opposed to inclination, were dwelt on with a warmth which seemed due to the consequence he was wounding, but was very unlikely to recommend his suit.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Often it would seem that the attempt to maintain secrecy in non-sensitive functions is not worth the security effort at all or, contrariwise, may even reassure the antagonists of the United States by not letting them realize how serious and how unfriendly our plans or policies with respect to them may be.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

In a voice which, though low and almost in a whisper seemed to cut through the air and then ring round the room he said:— “How dare you touch him, any of you?
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Not until then for the first time did she venture to recall how she had looked over her shoulder before turning out of the town, and had seen the sign of the White Lion hanging across the road, and the fluttering market booths, and the old grey church, and the little crowd gazing after her but not attempting to follow her.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

" A proud man was the Roman, His speech a single one,
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

They returned home sweating, out of breath, torn; they were true blackguards, if you will, but they made men who have zeal in their heart to serve their country and blood to shed for her.
— from Rousseau (Volume 1 and 2) by John Morley

Austin will be in town to-morrow, and if he is true to his principles, he will instantly adopt measures to rescue his son from infamy.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

'To Rossatorc,' he said, and the man turned round and once more whipped up his tired horses.
— from An Isle in the Water by Katharine Tynan

Through the room he strode, regardless alike of the timid whisperings of women and offended stare of men.
— from An Oregon Girl: A Tale of American Life in the New West by Alfred Ernest Rice

Several of the fiercest of the dominant faction, Couthon for example, and Saint Just, were substituted for more moderate politicians; but Barere was suffered to retain his seat at the Board.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

In 2 Henry IV. (ii. 4. 206), when Falstaff wants Pistol put out of the room, he says to Bardolph: "Quoit him down, Bardolph, like a shove-groat shilling."
— from Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time by W. J. (William James) Rolfe

When Walter Margrove heard about it he looked me up in Newcastle and then, some time after, he told me that I was to go into service with the Right Honourable Sir Ian Menstrie, Knight of the Most Noble Order of St. Michael, Lord Duke of Ochil and Earl of Strath Allan, and I was so frightened.”
— from The Child of the Moat: A Story for Girls. 1557 A.D. by I. B. (Ian Bernard) Stoughton Holborn

The merchant had no mind to sacrifice his daughters to the ugly monster, but he thought, in obtaining this respite, he should have the satisfaction of seeing them once more; so he promised upon oath, he would return, and the Beast told him he might set out when he pleased; "but, (added he,) you shall not depart empty handed; go back to the room where you lay, and you will see a great empty chest; fill it with whatever you like best, and I will send it to your home," and at the same time Beast withdrew.
— from Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont

It is just the reverse,” he said, with an unreasonable feeling that Winifred ought to know and understand all at once.
— from Thorpe Regis by Frances Mary Peard