1 Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle.
2 The cat, profiting by this unusual demonstration, tried to effect an unnoticed retreat, and in doing so backed into the pickle-dish, which fell to the floor with a crash.
3 Her glance fell on his hand, which now completely covered the end of her work and grasped it as if it were a part of herself.
4 Her words fell on his ear with a strange shock of wonder.
5 He had scattered the contents of the table-drawer in his search for a sheet of paper, and as he took up his pen his eye fell on an old copy of the Bettsbridge Eagle.
6 He drew the lantern nearer and eagerly scanned the fares; then the paper fell from his hand and he pushed aside his unfinished letter.
7 He fell asleep, and when he woke the chill of the winter dawn was in the room.
8 With the sudden perception of the point to which his madness had carried him, the madness fell and he saw his life before him as it was.
9 As they entered it the breeze fell and a warm stillness seemed to drop from the branches with the dropping needles.
10 Scarlett's hand fell from his arm.
11 Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue.
12 The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.
13 Despite her heartache and the pain of unshed tears, a deep sense of quiet and peace fell upon Scarlett as it always did at this hour.
14 She knew no such troublesome thoughts ever disturbed the brains under the four flaming thatches in the carriage and, as always when she felt herself different from her neighbors, an irritated confusion fell upon her.
15 The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.