This Luscinda I loved, worshipped, and adored from my earliest and tenderest years, and she loved me in all the innocence and sincerity of childhood.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And I knew we all felt mean, eating and drinking Marget's fine things along with those companies of spies, and petting her and complimenting her with the rest, and seeing with self-reproach how foolishly happy she was, and never saying a word to put her on her guard.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Now I make pretence of agreement, for at the worst it will be but a few meals eaten away from thee.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

This account of the continuity between the canal and abdominal fibrous membrane equally applies to the connexion existing between the general sheath of the vessels and the abdominal membrane.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

If thy disease be continuate and painful to thee, it will not surely last: and a light affliction, which is but for a moment, causeth unto us a far more excellent and eternal weight of glory, 2 Cor.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Set us down, so my wife and I into the garden, a fine moonshine evening, and there talking, and among other things she tells me that she finds by W. Hewer that my people do observe my minding my pleasure more than usual, which I confess, and am ashamed of, and so from this day take upon me to leave it till Whit-Sunday.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Their own faces were sallow with the unwholesomeness of hot air and sedentary toil, rather than with any actual signs of want: they were employed in a fashionable millinery establishment, and were fairly well clothed and well paid; but the youngest among them was as dull and colourless as the middle-aged.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

A few moments earlier a man had entered, but no one had paid any heed to him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The apparition had reached the landing halfway up and was therefore on the spot nearest the window, where at sight of me, it stopped short and fixed me exactly as it had fixed me from the tower and from the garden.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

He was very anxious to have us for boarders, but I soon explained to him that we had a full mess equipment along, and that we were not in the habit of paying board; that one wing of the building would suffice for our use, while I would allow him to keep an hotel for the accommodation of officers and gentlemen in the remainder.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But a few moments elapsed after I had taken my draught, when I felt a weakness steal over me; my eyelids grew heavy, my knees gave way, and an intolerable heat burned my veins.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy by Various

He wishes me—whom he calls the best man in England—to give his son lessons in boxing, which he says he considers a fine manly English art, and a great defence against Popery—notwithstanding that only a month ago, when he considered me a down pin, he was in the habit of railing against it as a blackguard practice, and against me as a blackguard for following it; so I am going to commence with young hopeful to-morrow.”
— from The Romany Rye A sequel to "Lavengro" by George Borrow

The saving effected by such an establishment would have been immense, [22] and the service would have been performed in a far more expeditious and effective manner.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

If the breeze freshened before they had time to work out, they paid dearly for their apprehensions of the Bell Rock, by driving upon ledges fully as sharp and far more extensive and inevitable.
— from The World of Waters Or, A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Osborne, David, Mrs. (Fanny)

It was not until the spring of that year that the [Pg 188] next upward step came; then Peter and Nat were sent to the Elmwood plant for a few months’ experience at the sole leather factories.
— from The Story of Leather by Sara Ware Bassett

The only “Church” they recognize is the Universal Church composed of all faithful men everywhere; and as Ruskin speaks of sheep on distant mountains who look like stones, so Friends have always held that the heathen were or could be saints of the household of God, and that knowledge of the historical Jesus Christ was not essential to salvation here or hereafter.
— from The Harvest of Ruskin by John W. (John William) Graham

I took a glass of wine, Francis Ardry followed my example, and then proceeded to detail to me the treatment which he had experienced from Annette, and from what he said, it appeared that her conduct to him had been in the highest degree reprehensible; notwithstanding he had indulged her in everything, she was never civil to him, but loaded him continually with taunts and insults, and had finally, on his being unable to supply her with a sum of money which she had demanded, decamped from the lodgings which he had taken for her, carrying with her all the presents which at various times he had bestowed upon her, and had put herself under the protection of a gentleman who played the bassoon at the Italian Opera, at which place it appeared that her sister had lately been engaged as a danseuse.
— from The Romany Rye A sequel to "Lavengro" by George Borrow

Huge and cumbrous boughs sweep back and forth, melodious, eloquent; and from tremulous leaf to swaying limb rises a choric song, beautiful, wonderful....
— from Of Walks and Walking Tours: An Attempt to find a Philosophy and a Creed by Arnold Haultain

He felt all right thanks to the meds, but he knew his stamina was only a fraction of what it should be; a few more exchanges, and he'd lose by simple attrition.
— from Zeta Exchange: A Terran Empire story by Ann Wilson

Luckily the rust-hinged doors and chain-weighted gates creaked with as pompous humility and dignified alacrity for my exit as to admit me, though there were those within who had not passed them in twenty years.
— from Vagabonding down the Andes Being the Narrative of a Journey, Chiefly Afoot, from Panama to Buenos Aires by Harry Alverson Franck