Then I stopped shouting, and sat down on the headland and rested my chin on my hands and stared.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Thus, he has also recreated my character of `Mignon' in one of his novels, but whether he has done it with just as much wisdom, is a different question.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May

I must, angel, resume my collar of misery; but it shall not be until I have put here for you all the flowers of my heart, a thousand tendernesses, a thousand caresses, all the [Pg 65] prayers of a poor solitary who lives between his thoughts and his love.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

listen to what he says well on in the second volume, after the little incidents already quoted: 'Having at length recovered my strength and vigour, after I had composed myself and resumed my cheerfulness of mind, I continued to read my Bible, and so accustomed my eyes to that darkness, that though I was at first able to read only an hour and a half, I could at length read three hours.
— from Obiter Dicta by Augustine Birrell

Hence, I cannot conceive anything that could be offered me capable of appeasing this inquietude and removing my confusion of mind.
— from The Duchess of Trajetto by Anne Manning

A central government supported by a rising middle class of merchants and bankers was able to create big armies of professional soldiers and equip them with newly introduced gunpowder, a capability quite beyond the reach of the old feudal nobles.
— from De Soto, Coronado, Cabrillo: Explorers of the Northern Mystery by David Lavender

"Ah, I think you may as well give up beat, all round, Mr. Codman," observed Mark Elwood, after the surprise and laughter had subsided.
— from Gaut Gurley; Or, the Trappers of Umbagog: A Tale of Border Life by Daniel P. (Daniel Pierce) Thompson

Yet I feel that I ought to fortify myself and recover my calmness of mind.
— from Facing the Flag by Jules Verne

It had a rod mill capacity of more 30 than 1,100,000 tons and a wire nail capacity of more than 10,000,000 kegs, or more than 500,000 tons.
— from United States Steel: A Corporation with a Soul by Arundel Cotter