You, the reader, have a personal interest in that link, and so have I; so has the rest of the human race.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

When I was brought down from my prison to the Court of Bankruptcy, between two policemen,—waited in the long dreary corridor that, before the whole crowd, whom an action so sweet and simple hushed into silence, he might gravely raise his hat to me, as, handcuffed and with bowed head, I passed him by.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

But thilke litel that they spake or wroughte, His wyse goost took ay of al swich hede, It semed hir, he wiste what she thoughte 465 With-outen word, so that it was no nede To bidde him ought to done, or ought for-bede; For which she thought that love, al come it late, Of alle Ioye hadde opned hir the yate.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Almost distracted with anxiety for the elder and every one else, Alyosha succeeded, however, in supporting him by the arm.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His memory was capacious and retentive; his wit easy and social; his imagination sublime; his judgment clear, rapid, and decisive.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“And so have I,” said Hilda.
— from The Marble Faun; Or, The Romance of Monte Beni - Volume 1 by Nathaniel Hawthorne

" From Mr. Power's interesting correspondence we get pleasant little peeps at the private life of the great hero:— "Gordon is a most lovable character—quiet, mild, gentle and strong; he is so humble too.
— from General Gordon A Christian Hero by Seton Churchill

Were it not a sin, how I should hate them, for they have stolen our country from us—but no, I will not; and, to be sure, if Rezánov had lived he would have had it first, so what difference?
— from The Spinners' Book of Fiction by Spinners' Club

He had threatened many times to take the step which now at last he had taken; but always Scott had intervened, shielding her from the harshness which such a step inevitably involved.
— from Greatheart by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

A strange, hysterical impulse seized her and she tried to shout.
— from Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

When a sail or the smoke from a steamer heaves in sight he examines the passing vessel for a considerable time with a powerful telescope.
— from Facing the Flag by Jules Verne

Warned by the shadow, the cook looked up and saw her in Stetson hat, short skirt, high-laced shoes, a sunlit vision with the freshness of the morning upon its cheeks.
— from The Settler by Herman Whitaker