For a gentleman who was rejoiced to see a body of visitors, Mr. Gregsbury looked as uncomfortable as might be; but perhaps this was occasioned by senatorial gravity, and a statesmanlike habit of keeping his feelings under control.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She was horrified, and fled to her own room, but had not time to shut him out; he forced the door open, she ran to her bed, intending to ring for the servant, he caught her as she had one knee up on the bed, and was into her from behind before she could accomplish her purpose.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

When her master was departed, Mrs Deborah stood silent, expecting her cue from Miss Bridget; for as to what had past before her master, the prudent housekeeper by no means relied upon it, as she had often known the sentiments of the lady in her brother's absence to differ greatly from those which she had expressed in his presence.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

After all, she had only known a little part of the miserable struggle in which he had been engaged thus unequipped, poor, and unforeseeing.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

At that lament our spirit was changed, and all assault stayed: we encourage him to speak, and tell of what blood he is sprung, or what assurance he brings his captors. '"In all things assuredly," says he, "O King, befall what may, I will confess to thee the truth; nor will I deny myself of Argolic birth—this first—
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

[643] they shall oversee that no prowling officer, under colour of authority, shall insult over his inferiors, as so many wild beasts, oppress, domineer, flea, grind, or trample on, be partial or corrupt, but that there be aequabile jus , justice equally done, live as friends and brethren together; and which [644] Sesellius would have and so much desires in his kingdom of France, a diapason and sweet harmony of kings, princes, nobles, and plebeians so mutually tied and involved in love, as well as laws and authority, as that they never disagree, insult, or encroach one upon another.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If the plan prospers other Kurds join; and the leader of the gang presently builds him a small hold, or kala (again with the forced labour of the villagers), and at length the bulk of the Christians are worried out of the country.
— from The Cradle of Mankind; Life in Eastern Kurdistan by Edgar Thomas Ainger Wigram

The roof is ornamented and gilded, and everywhere throughout there is embellishment of color and carving on the broadest scale, and, at the same time, most minute and elaborate; statues of full size in niches aloft; small heads of kings, no bigger than a doll; and the oak is carved in all parts of the panelling as faithfully as they used to do it in Henry VII's time,—as faithfully and with as good workmanship, but with nothing like the variety and invention which I saw in the dining-room of Smithell's Hall.
— from Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete by Nathaniel Hawthorne

She simply appointed an hour and a place for the interview and signed herself Olga Karacsay.
— from A Coin of Edward VII: A Detective Story by Fergus Hume

He had fought with blind and misdirected valor in the battle, and so had other knights whose names have not come down to us.
— from Historic Bubbles by Frederic Leake

She would have silenced it, but feared to draw more attention on her charge, who had never heard the song, and did not know what was coming, but listened with increasing eagerness as she heard of King Arthur, and of the giant, and the secret that the King could not guess, till as he rode— He came to the green forest, Underneath a green hollen tree, There sat that lady in red scarlet
— from Grisly Grisell; Or, The Laidly Lady of Whitburn: A Tale of the Wars of the Roses by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

‘“Meanwhile, Candrāpīḍa willingly entered the jewelled house, as if it were a second heart of Kādambarī.
— from The Kādambarī of Bāṇa by Bāṇa‏

the first of the carven figures that surrounded the throne thus spake and said: 'Harken, O King.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

There's a famous Thing of his at Surgeons' Hall ; old King Harry granting the Charter to the Company; howbeit, though he painted half the Court, he did nothing better, to my Mind, than his Likeness of Mistress Alice , that now hangs at the Foot of her Husband's Bed.
— from The Colloquies of Edward Osborne, Citizen and Clothworker of London by Anne Manning

there they were on the quay and on the sea, our own folk, our dear folk; and who were ever like them when it came to the bit, and stout hearts or kind hearts were wanted? “Stand back, kindred!” cried the Cornal, putting spurs to his horse, and he pranced up the town-head, a pretty man, to join the Major and gallop round the loch-head to join the corps at Cairn-dubh.
— from The Lost Pibroch, and other Sheiling Stories by Neil Munro

This woman had been arrested, too, as “her friend,” but she said she was quite sure of getting off, as she had only known the other woman quite a short time, and had no idea that she was in any way “suspected.”
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady