They were now finely furnished, and raised in flesh, so that, panting with desire, they rose and fell, in quick heaves, under his touch: at this, the boy's eyes began to lighten with all the fires of inflamed nature, and his cheeks flushed with a deep scarlet: tongue-tied with joy, rapture, and bashfulness, he could not speak, but then his looks, his emotion, sufficiently satisfied me that my train had taken, and that I had no disappointment to fear.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

His face again resumed its former stiff and cold expression.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

2c2 butt in in a conversation where one has no business or answer remarks intended for s.o. else.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And by this act of these two Phenixes 100 Nature againe restored is, For since these two are two no more, Ther's but one Phenix still, as was before.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

There seems to be a romantic impulse for some in the very trials that beset the path of crime.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters

Imports - partners: Australia 66%, Samoa 13.8%, NZ 10.8% (2005) Debt - external: $NA Economic aid - recipient: important financial support from the US, more than $40 million in 1994 Currency (code): US dollar (USD) Currency code: USD Exchange rates: the US dollar is used Fiscal year: 1 October - 30 September Communications American Samoa Telephones - main lines in use: 15,000 (2001) Telephones - mobile cellular: 2,377 (1999)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

would regain their property ‘and yet they shall seem not to be excluded from all possibility of enjoying it when that imaginary thing a reprisal is found,’ Spicilegium Ossoriense , ii. 189.
— from Ireland under the Stuarts and During the Interregnum, Vol. 3 (of 3), 1660-1690 by Richard Bagwell

I had a near escape for my life with a revolver: I fired six charges, and the six bullets all remained in the barrel, which was choked from end to end, from muzzle to breach, with solid lead; it took a man three hours to 240 drill them out.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 23 by Robert Louis Stevenson

In the work of suppressing his breath he permitted its respiration to reach at furthest twelve fingers’ breadth, and gradually diminished the distance from his nostrils till he could confine it to the length of twelve fingers from his nose, and even after restraining it for some time he would draw it from no greater distance than from his heart.
— from Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

And through the night at regular intervals fresh showers arrived to further moisten things.
— from Flying the Coast Skyways; Or, Jack Ralston's Swift Patrol by Ambrose Newcomb

We had dinner rather early, and dined in private, as Robert is feeling stiff now after this morning’s adventure.
— from The Stowmarket Mystery; Or, A Legacy of Hate by Louis Tracy

He felt some concern that this strange thing, called a Revolution in France, should be compared with the glorious event commonly called the Revolution in England; and the conduct of the soldiery, on that occasion, compared with the behaviour of some of the troops of France in the present instance.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke