The walls, of earth faced with brick and unhewn stone, still stand, forming, as in the Tartar city of Peking, a double enceinte , of which the inner line no doubt represents the area of the "Marble Palace" of which Polo speaks.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The inward action was too intense for Adam to take in outward objects until some strong sensation roused him.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

We were never apart, and the friendship that united us seemed so strong that nothing could break it.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

And when Sir Gawaine, Sir Uwaine, Sir Sagramore, Sir Ector de Maris, saw Sir Launcelot in Kay's armour, then they wist well it was he that smote them down all with one spear.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Lisbeth had been unusually silent since she came downstairs, apparently requiring some time to adjust her ideas to a state of things in which she came down like a lady to find all the work done, and sat still to be waited on.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Kneeling by his side, as she often knelt in her unwearying service, she strove to look into his averted face, and to meet and to hold his miserable eyes with her own clear gaze, from which the clouds were fast drifting away.
— from Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

Frank thought at once about the Crystal Palace: but looking up, he saw his grandmother was pale and delicate, and therefore would not name it, until she should seem to him a little better; for already had he learnt, in some degree, to follow Him "who pleased not himself."
— from The Young Emigrants; Madelaine Tube; the Boy and the Book; and Crystal Palace by Susan Anne Livingston Ridley Sedgwick

woke him like a bullet piercing his brain, and he got up, still staggering, stretching out his hands to save himself from falling, and calling to Sam to help him.
— from Original Short Stories — Volume 04 by Guy de Maupassant

A postscript enjoined that the United States should send no messengers into their country, except through the Five Nations."
— from Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea (Vol. II) Including the Border Wars of the American Revolution and Sketches of the Indian Campaigns of Generals Harmar, St. Clair, and Wayne; And Other Matters Connected with the Indian Relations of the United States and Great Britain, from the Peace of 1783 to the Indian Peace of 1795 by William L. (William Leete) Stone

He watched the gardener stirring up some strange stuff for the pig that grunted impatiently.
— from Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie