When Ursula left school, he was making a silver bowl of lovely shape.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

What a starved, unloved life she had had—a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne’s history and divine the truth.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

That night I made an attempt upon Lischen, saluting her with a yell and a grin which frightened her almost out of her wits; and when anybody came I was raving.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

318 And though no one should allow me to paraphrase or change that passage or alter that word, 319 and though I should be told that I must leave it undisturbed like something holy and consecrated by time, even in that case I shall maintain that this is what that wise man meant.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

One fine summer evening Flashman had been regaling himself on gin-punch, at Brownsover; and, having exceeded his usual limits, started home uproarious.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Morrel raised his head, and reading the eyes of the old man, which gleamed with unnatural lustre,— “Stay,” he said, “M. Noirtier wishes to speak.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He recalled her glance of understanding when he had urged that their engagement should be announced at the Beaufort ball; he heard the voice in which she had said, in the Mission garden: "I couldn't have my happiness made out of a wrong—a wrong to some one else;" and an uncontrollable longing seized him to tell her the truth, to throw himself on her generosity, and ask for the freedom he had once refused.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Company E, under Lieutenant Statler, held them in check till we could retire in good order.
— from Notes of a Private by John Milton Hubbard

Katharine has entangled herself with this unknown lawyer; she has seen fit to condone Cassandra’s conduct.”
— from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Sophie loved the austerity of her home when she went to live in it—its earthen floor, bare walls, unvarnished furniture, the couch under the window, the curtains of unbleached linen she had hemstitched herself, the row of shining syrup-tins in which she kept tea, sugar, and coffee on shelves near the fireplace, the big earthenware jar for flowers, and a couple of jugs which Snow-Shoes had made for her and baked in an oven of his own contrivance.
— from The Black Opal by Katharine Susannah Prichard

Cab'net Ministers, any one who leads an unnatural life, see how it twists 'em.
— from Complete Plays of John Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

It is a piece of calm sanctity in-buckram, is a stout mass of undiluted lime stone, has been made ornate with pepper castors, looks sweetly-clean after a summer shower, is devoid of a steeple, will never be blown over, couldn't be lifted in one piece, and will nearly stand forever.
— from Our Churches and Chapels: Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus