Independent People (Halldor Laxness)
When one journeys from one homestead to the next nothing seems more likely than that they all bear the same name and that the same man and the same woman work them all; yet that is not so.
The Last September (Elizabeth Bowen)
And because no one answered or cared and a conversation went on without her, she felt profoundly lonely, suspecting once more for herself a particular doom of exclusion.
The Country Girls (Edna O'Brien)
She was referring to an old-fashioned bicycle of Mama's that I sometimes used.
THE AWAKENING and Other Stories (Kate Chopin)
She is not one of us; she is not like us.
L aiguille creuse - Maurice Leblanc
Le substitut du procureur s ecria, d un ton narquois.
Eugénie Grandet (Honoré de Balzac)
This result of her long and persistent economy seemed gigantic.
Inzanesville by Jo Ann Beard
"Chuck takes one step, grabs Derek by the upper arm and lifts him off the floor like a stick." No good comes of this, of course.
The Greek way to Western Civilization -Edith Hamilton
The ancient priests had said, "Thus far and no further.We set the limits to thought".
The Professor's House (Willa Cather)
What other future could Augusta possibly have expected?
Winter in Thrush Green (Miss Read)
She sounded dazed and vaguely surprised. :)