Then he said that he had spoken in a light manner, and he hoped that if he had made a mistake in doing so on so grave, so momentous, an occasion for him, I would forgive him.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The vices of a magistrate, in democratic states, are usually peculiar to his own person.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

I did but tell her she mistook her frets, And bow’d her hand to teach her fingering; When, with a most impatient devilish spirit, ’Frets, call you these?’ quoth she ‘I’ll fume with them’;
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And more!' proceeded Bella, breaking into tears again, 'you were wholly undeserving of the Gentleman you have lost.' 'Why, you don't mean to say, Miss Bella,' the Golden Dustman slowly remonstrated, 'that you set up Rokesmith against me?' 'I do!' said Bella.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Herbert’s liver became congested, and soon a more intense delirium showed that his brain was also affected.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

For as her murderous perspective, before the doing of the deed, however subtle the precautions for its commission, would have been closed up by a gigantic dilatation of the hateful figure, preventing her from seeing any consequences beyond it; and as those consequences would have rushed in, in an unimagined flood, the moment the figure was laid low—which always happens when a murder is done; so, now she sees that when he used to be on the watch before her, and she used to think, "if some mortal stroke would but fall on this old man and take him from my way!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It seemed to me that the beauty of the trees was hers also, and that, as for the spirit of those horizons, of the village of Roussainville, of the books which I was reading that year, it was her kiss which would make me master of them all; and, my imagination drawing strength from contact with my sensuality, my sensuality expanding through all the realms of my imagination, my desire had no longer any bounds.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

The seconds seemed hours; but the few moments I had in starting, combined with my youth and strength, gave me a great advantage, and, though several forms struggled after me in deadly silence which was more dreadful than any sound, I easily reached the top.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Here, waiter, bring me a cock-tail and make it damned strong.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

"The orange trees are a good investment—our one bearing tree has proved that—and as for the money our farming experiment has cost us, we should have spent as much, I dare say, had we lived at the hotel, and not have been one half as comfortable."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. by Various

Then it came, strong and slow, the breath of a man in deep sleep.
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

On the evening of October 24, 1963, after addressing a meeting in Dallas, Stevenson was jeered, jostled, and spat upon by hostile demonstrators outside the Dallas Memorial Auditorium Theater.
— from Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by United States. Warren Commission

I believe it was a charming excursion; as happy, too, as under the bitter conditions of suspense it could be; but nothing worthy of record was spoken, and matters, I dare say, remained, ostensibly at least, precisely as they were.
— from The Tenants of Malory, Volume 1 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

"That's where you and me is different," she declared.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 2 by Winston Churchill