The cherub not presuming to address so tremendous an object, transacted her supper through the agency of a third person, as 'Mutton to your Ma, Bella, my dear'; and 'Lavvy, I dare say your Ma would take some lettuce if you were to put it on her plate.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

But now we shall follow Sir Richard; so listen, and you shall hear what befell him, and how he paid his debts at Emmet Priory, and likewise in due season to Robin Hood.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

I was so frantic that I even wanted to get taken on as a labourer in Demidovo, so as to be near her.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Coming on deck, at midnight, and finding no officer on deck, and all still aft, he lowered his bag into a boat, got softly down into it, cast off the painter, and let it drop silently with the tide until he was out of hearing, when he sculled ashore.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

This roaring avalanche swept out of Melbourne and left it desolate, Sunday-like, paralyzed, everything at a stand-still, the ships lying idle at anchor, all signs of life departed, all sounds stilled save the rasping of the cloud-shadows as they scraped across the vacant streets.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

The British Ministers were a little in doubt still--a little ashamed of themselves--and certain to wait the longer for their next step in proportion to the haste of their first.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Crespin names thirteen Churches, completely organised in the manner of the Church of Paris, founded between 1555 and 1557—Meaux, Poitiers, Angers, les Iles de Saintonge, Agen, Bourges, Issoudun, Aubigny, Blois, Tours, Lyon, Orléans, and Rouen.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

When at last I did see her, she was apathetic and dull; her feelings, her senses, and her intelligence seemed to have gone within, as if preying upon her heart.
— from Solomon by Constance Fenimore Woolson

There is a loneliness in deep sorrow which the Deity alone can relieve.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

"No, it is a great deal longer—twenty times as long, I dare say," replied Mr Caxton with a sigh.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 69, No. 427, May, 1851 by Various

It would be difficult to write a very clear medical history of the majority of cases from a subjective examination, and I insert one as an example: “I got a lump in de stomach here, sir” (pointing just above the pubic bone), “and he jump up in de t’roat and den I gits swingness in de head.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

He did not budge, for he expected to see the female mate appear, as the story-books always lay it down she should.
— from Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet