“You can only be a restraint upon me,” answered he, “by commanding me from your presence.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

Evidently his first step must be to ingratiate himself with both Henry and Maria, as the sympathizing brother, a very easy task among such charitable fools: number two should be to persuade them, as the mother did, that Sir Thomas, generally a reserved unsocial man at home (and that in especial to Maria), was very nervous at the thought of losing his dear daughter, and (while he acquiesced in the common fate of parents and the usual way of the world) begged that his coming bereavement might be obtruded on him as little as possible—Mr. Clements always to avoid him, and Maria to hold her tongue: number three, to amuse his father all the while by the prospect of his own high alliance, so as effectually to hoodwink him from what was going on: and, number four, to send him up to Yorkshire a week hence (on some fool's errand to inquire after the imaginary countess's imaginary mortgages), leaving behind him an autograph epistle (
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

He flourished his bowie-knife and I my dirk, for the space of a few minutes, when he made a rush upon me, and he met my dirk before I met his bowie-knife.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

I took his from where he left it by me, and rolled up mine and Hilda's in it.
— from A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

I know all her treachery; and he, ever a serpent in my path, ever a restraint upon my actions, he has in this point also assailed me."
— from Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

At any rate, Uncle Moses and his party all tumbled in triumphantly.
— from Among the Brigands by James De Mille

But while I know this, I think of the women who have fastened the tendrils of their heart's affection round unworthy men, and have married them, hoping, trusting and believing that their love and influence would be powerful enough to win the men to sobriety and virtue.
— from London's Underworld by Thomas Holmes

He rubbed his under lip with his umbrella handle and reflected upon Masterman and his denunciation of the world.
— from Kipps: The Story of a Simple Soul by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In the midst of my anxiety about this, up comes a writer of the 'Revue des Deux Mondes' to my husband, to say that he was preparing a review upon me and had been directed by the editor to make use of some biographical details extracted from your book into the 'Athenæum,' but that it had occurred to him doubtfully whether certain things might not be painful to me, and whether I might not prefer their being omitted in his paper.
— from The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Volume 2 of 2) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning