The next day, when the feast was again held, and her father, mother and sisters were gone, Cinderella went to the hazel-tree, and all happened as the evening before.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Then, as if the heads were moved by one muscle, all the faces were turned toward him with wide, derisive grins.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

if so, that possibly a Newt or an Asker, or some such detested reptile, had crept up, and was fastening his teeth——the horrid idea of which, with a fresh glow of pain arising that instant from the chesnut, seized Phutatorius with a sudden panick, and in the first terrifying disorder of the passion, it threw him, as it has done the best generals upon earth, quite off his guard:——the effect of which was this, that he leapt incontinently up, uttering as he rose that interjection of surprise so much descanted upon, with the aposiopestic break after it, marked thus, Z——ds—which, though not 275 strictly canonical, was still as little as any man could have said upon the occasion;——and which, by-the-bye, whether canonical or not, Phutatorius could no more help than he could the cause of it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

"I don't know that, Sir, but I will never stand to be hissed," was the subjoinder of young Confidence—when gathering up his features into one significant mass of wonder, pity, and expostulatory indignation—in a lesson never to have been lost upon a creature less forward than she who stood before him—his words were these: "They have hissed me ."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

[ Contents ] Chapter IX Local Affairs Ibarra had not been mistaken about the occupant of the victoria, for it was indeed Padre Damaso, and he was on his way to the house which the youth had just left.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

This being warmer work than they had calculated upon, speedily cooled the courage of the belligerents, who scrambled to their feet and called for quarter.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

If we had been dealing with the points on the circle to which the three hands are directed, the answer would be 45 min. 22 106 / 1427 sec. after eleven; but the question applied to the hands, and the second hand would not be between the others at that time, but outside them.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

The coach had been on the road eleven hours, which, with the three hours allotted the horses in four periods for feeding and breathing, made fourteen.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

While Tom was eating his supper, and stealing sugar as opportunity offered, Aunt Polly asked him questions that were full of guile, and very deep—for she wanted to trap him into damaging revealments.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Then the governor ordered Nueste de Schaieses [254] to write to his commander that he should remain until further advice with his people among the Machkasis, [255] but he should not take from them anything nor do them any harm, excepting with regard to food, although we knew very well that they had silver, but being the subjects of a Spaniard, we should not do them any injury.
— from The Conquest of the River Plate (1535-1555) by Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar, active 16th century

Scarface then showed himself in the orchard and quietly walked in a line so as to, pass by the stump at a distance, but never once turned his head or allowed the ever-watchful woodchuck to think himself seen.
— from Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen by Ernest Thompson Seton

From this rich and varied experience, and from these elevated ideas, William Fabens spoke, as he conversed with his cousin and the harvesters, while taking the harvest lunch.
— from Summerfield or, Life on a Farm by Day Kellogg Lee

It seemed as if we two together had been transported to Heaven and filled all its spaces.
— from Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 by Anatole France

It is somewhat disquieting, to be sure, when walking through the hall, to hear the bell above one's head break out in rattling clangor, and, looking through the wide-open front door, to perceive that no visible visitor was at the other end of the wire:—and in spite of many former experiences, we could not restrain ourselves from jumping in our seats when, at dinner, all the doors in the house would slam in rapid succession with a violence that set the dishes dancing on the board.
— from True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural by Sidney Dickinson

Everybody goes away when I want them to help me tow the raft ashore, and I can't do it by myself.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

It was brave and rich and firm, with its bold deep hollow; and, without this queer torment about it, would, thanks to her love of plenty of yellow, figure to her as an enviable ornament, a possession really desirable.
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 2 by Henry James

I may, perhaps, in the outset, and in few words, enable the general reader to form a clearer idea of the importance of every existing expression of Venetian character through Venetian art and of the breadth of interest which the true history of Venice embraces, than he is likely to have gleaned from the current fables of her mystery or magnificence.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 by Various