Here it was, he told me, that he saw for the first time that mortal enemy of the human race, and here, too, for the first time he declared to her his passion, as honourable as it was devoted, and here it was that at last Marcela ended by scorning and rejecting him so as to bring the tragedy of his wretched life to a close; here, in memory of misfortunes so great, he desired to be laid in the bowels of eternal oblivion.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Getting through with her “ohs” Anne cast herself into Marilla’s arms and rapturously kissed her sallow cheek.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I had sprung out of bed, and clasped her in my arms, then passing a hand down to her beauteous and well-covered mons Veneris
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

So, the first thing I did, I got a merchant in Lisbon to write to his correspondent in London, not only to pay a bill, but to go find her out, and carry her, in money, a hundred pounds from me, and to talk with her, and comfort her in her poverty, by telling her she should, if I lived, have a further supply: at the same time I sent my two sisters in the country a hundred pounds each, they being, though not in want, yet not in very good circumstances; one having been married and left a widow; and the other having a husband not so kind to her as he should be.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

My situation in life, my connections with the family of de Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further consideration, that in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The youth sat down in the garden and considered how it might be possible to perform this task, but he could think of nothing, and there he sat sorrowfully awaiting the break of day, when he should be led to death.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

She told me afore Christmas how it mud be, if I hit ’em again; but I couldn’t hold my hand off ’em at nothing.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

In common honesty and common honour I must have gone at once to the stranger whose birthright had been usurped—I must have renounced the victory at the moment when it was mine by placing my discovery unreservedly in that stranger's hands—and I must have faced afresh all the difficulties which stood between me and the one object of my life, exactly as I was resolved in my heart of hearts to face them now!
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Doctors, trained nurses, nursery maids, young mothers, etc., who became guilty of “negligence” of invalids and children have, in many instances, merely “misunderstood” because of great fatigue.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But that which Bodine, l. 4, Theat. nat. thinks (following Tyrius belike, and the Platonists,) they can tell the secrets of a man's heart, aut cogitationes hominum , is most false; his reasons are weak, and sufficiently confuted by Zanch.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The advance of science and civilization has involved mankind in a turmoil of multitudinous and absorbing interests from the pressure of which there seems to us no escape except in self-oblivion; and the most obvious use of reading is to minister to this end.
— from Talks on the study of literature. by Arlo Bates

He used to make wooden spoons and such like useful mean things, to exercise himself at certain hours in manual labor.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

Hamilton proposed and carried highly important measures for the restoration of public credit and for the revival of industry and commerce.
— from Outlines of Universal History, Designed as a Text-book and for Private Reading by George Park Fisher

Eusebe arose, revived by the sympathetic curiosity of the man, and replied,— [50] “I arrived in Paris, this morning, from my native province, and already a coachman has insulted me, a soldier has mocked me, an old man has deceived me, a commissary of police has desired to arrest me, as he thought me crazy, because I had saved a man’s life, a waiter in a restaurant has called me green , a great lady has refused to answer me, and a working-woman has heaped epithets upon me because I asked her to direct me to an auberge .
— from Human Follies (La Bêtise Humaine.) by Jules Noriac

Afterwards, much disappointed, and certainly hungry, I made my way back across the park to the Hall, where, after managing to get a snack from Williams, I joined the party at bridge.
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux

By his holy life, example, and conversation, he impressed most favourably all who came in contact with him.
— from Romantic Ireland; volume 1/2 by Blanche McManus