" The newcomer's black eyes flashed, and his thin lips parted in a smile as he bent low and ceremoniously kissed his hostess' hand in continental fashion.
— from The Mask: A Story of Love and Adventure by Arthur Hornblow

Only Bullard, Lancaster, and Caw knew of them; and Caw is in the minority.
— from Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell

The audience was still dropping, little by little, and Charley knew perfectly well that something had to be done, and fast.
— from Charley de Milo by Laurence M. Janifer

Love, brotherly love, alone can keep our consciences at rest, and fully satisfy our aspirations—such is the earnest cry of this man across the threshold of whose life the hatred of a fellow man stretched the corpse of a murdered father.
— from Tuscan folk-lore and sketches, together with some other papers by Isabella Mary Anderton

Then he began loud and clear, "Katy did!
— from Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

To two families of venerable antiquity, and both, if I remember right, of the county of Lancashire, the approaching death of a relative is made known in one case by loud and continued knockings at the hall door at the solemn hour of midnight; and in the other, by strains of wild and unearthly music floating in the air.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 221, January 21, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various