He walked up to the sideboard, and tearing a piece from the loaf he devoured it voraciously, washing it down with a long draught of water.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“I have a golden bedroom,” he said softly to himself as he looked round, and he prepared to go to sleep; but just as he was putting his head under his wing a large drop of water fell on him.
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

He walked up to the sideboard, and, tearing a piece from the loaf, he devoured it voraciously, washing it down with a long draught of water.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

A piece or two of naked quickmatch is to be inserted in the hole through the clay or plaster, and a long piece is to be pushed up the core, or hollow, of the rocket, as far as it will go; it is, then, to be cut off flush with the mouth, and fastened to the side with a little dab of wetted meal powder, pressed on it with the blade of a knife.
— from The Pyrotechnist's Treasury; Or, Complete Art of Making Fireworks by Thomas Kentish

Then I happened to say what a lovely dress, only what a pity it was that the lace was all black.
— from Mary Marie by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

They were half-way down the long room among the lathes and shafting, when the foreman who was in advance, started back with a cry of horror; for there not ten feet in front of him was a large dark object which seemed to be suspended from the arm of a heavy crane.
— from The Fortune of the Landrays by Vaughan Kester

He was a living dynamo, overcharged, with every nerve in him drawn to the point that demanded the reaction of physical exertion.
— from God's Country—And the Woman by James Oliver Curwood

But there are endless smaller additions; and of these one of the most interesting is the anecdote, ultimately derived from Suetonius, how Titus used to say that the day was a lost day on which he had done no good to any one [740] .
— from The Life and Times of Alfred the Great Being the Ford lectures for 1901 by Charles Plummer

After an early start, we soon reached a Turkish post, where a long delay occurred while our orderlies drew rations.
— from A Kut Prisoner by Harry Coghill Watson Bishop

We were a long distance off when the boat was overtaken, and I thought the views behind the town finer, at that position, than when nearer in.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

The old willow waved his branches to and fro in the wind, and large drops of water fell from his green leaves, as if he were shedding tears.
— from Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. Second Series by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"I have a golden bedroom," he said softly to himself as he looked round, and he prepared to go to sleep; but just as he was putting his head under his wing a large drop of water fell on him.
— from The Silent Readers: Sixth Reader by Ethel Maltby Gehres