She did hold her tongue, she looked at the ceiling, and whimpered while her face wore the expression of a little girl in disgrace expecting to be punished.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Goupil with a little girl I didn't know at all.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

But I have dreamt of the enchanted garden a thousand dreams, and seen its door, or at least glimpsed its door, four times since then.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

ílik v [AP; c1] turn the body right and left gracefully in dancing or to view oneself better in a mirror.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Among the Agar Dinka a large grave is dug and the rain-maker lies down in it, surrounded by his friends and relatives.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Your teacher will know it, too, because you will be so restless and inattentive in your classes that she will have to give you a low grade in deportment as well.
— from Principles of Public Health A Simple Text Book on Hygiene, Presenting the Principles Fundamental to the Conservation of Individual and Community Health by Thomas Dyer Tuttle

I dare say you children think it strange that I have kept such shabby things so long, but when I was a little girl I did not have such beautiful toys as you have now, and the few I had I loved very dearly."
— from The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels

But the men don't go over the top to put money in the Colonel's pocket, and little good is done by exploiting these loose analogies and putting on a too easy air of optimism in the face of desperately serious and complex problems.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 12, 1917 by Various

Am letzten Gültigkeitstage ist die Karte gegen Umtausch einer neuen Karte in den Milchgeschäften zurückzugeben.
— from The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner

Bob thought he heard him give a little grunt in doing so; but just then he was interested in repressing his own feelings.
— from The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon; or, The Hermit of the Cave by Carson, James, Captain

The chauffeur stepped on the gas, and the pleasant panorama of France flew by like a land glimpsed in dreams.
— from The Revellers by Louis Tracy

[430] The extent of a local group is determined in the following statement: "there were from twelve to twenty heads of families constituting the group, each with its particular division, who together made the tribe."
— from The Family among the Australian Aborigines, a Sociological Study by Bronislaw Malinowski