He returned to Mercedes and, as he brooded upon her image, a strange unrest crept into his blood.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

There was something rather bold in Miss Tulliver's direct gaze, and something undefinably coarse in the style of her beauty, which placed her, in the opinion of all feminine judges, far below her cousin Miss Deane; for the ladies of St. Ogg's had now completely ceded to Lucy their hypothetic claims on the admiration of Mr. Stephen Guest.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

He being gone, I to church again, where Mr. Mills, making a sermon upon confession, he did endeavour to pull down auricular confession, but did set it up by his bad arguments against it, and advising people to come to him to confess their sins when they had any weight upon their consciences, as much as is possible, which did vex me to hear.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

MARCUS POMPONIUS MARCELLUS, a very severe critic of the Latin tongue, who sometimes pleaded causes, in a certain address on the plaintiff’s behalf, persisted in charging his adversary with making a solecism, until Cassius Severus appealed to the judges to grant an adjournment until his client should produce another grammarian, as he was not prepared to enter into a controversy respecting a solecism, instead of defending his client’s rights.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Thereupon Molon, either as a stratagem, or because he really felt some doubt of the fidelity of his men, and was afraid that some of Xenoetas’s expectations might be fulfilled, left his baggage in his camp and started under cover of night in the direction of Media. Xenoetas, imagining that Molon had fled in terror at his approach, and because he distrusted the fidelity of his own troops, first attacked and took the enemy’s camp, and then sent for his own cavalry and their baggage from the camp of Zeuxis.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

On John's footer days she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

“Oh,” said the goatherd, “I do not know even the half of what has happened to the lovers of Marcela, but perhaps to-morrow we may fall in with some shepherd on the road who can tell us; and now it will be well for you to go and sleep under cover, for the night air may hurt your wound, though with the remedy I have applied to you there is no fear of an untoward result.” Sancho Panza, who was wishing the goatherd’s loquacity at the devil, on his part begged his master to go into Pedro’s hut to sleep.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

[607] after the latest manner of fortification, and situated upon convenient havens, or opportune places.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I concluded that by hiring one of these boats for a few days' fishing, with a colored boatman to accompany me, while ostensibly spending the day in sight of the guard-boats fishing—innocently fishing for suckers—to disarm any suspicion, I might have an opportunity, when it became dark, to crowd toward the opposite shore of Santa Rosa Island, some distance from Fort Pickens; and once on the island I could, under cover of night, steal down the shore to the Fort, and communicate with the officers, and, still under cover of the darkness, return to the mainland and make tracks through the swamps towards Mobile or New Orleans.
— from The Boy Spy A substantially true record of secret service during the war of the rebellion, a correct account of events witnessed by a soldier by Joseph Orton Kerbey

Heathcliff had not the habit of bestowing a single unnecessary civility on Miss Linton, I knew.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

, all show us characteristic old-time features.
— from Historic Paris by Jetta Sophia Wolff

She became annoyed, and sitting up called out, “Marie, what are you about?”
— from The Book of Dreams and Ghosts by Andrew Lang

[Pg 1036] always stir up controversy, 713 ; visits E. W. Osborne, joins Emerson and Browning classes, forgets invitations, compli. of Auburn Advertiser, spks.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

From the old terrace in front of the hotel, where the traveler used to look on trees, he will see now only raw new houses and a street usually crowded with passers and rows of sleepy donkeys and their voluble drivers.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

"'Oh,' said she, 'Sam, I must cut and run, and 'blush unseen,' that's a fact, or I'm ruinated,' and she up curls, comb, braid, and shoe, and off like a shot into a bed-room that adjoined the parlour, and bolted the door, and double-locked it, as if she was afraid an attachment was to be levied on her and her chattels, by the sheriff, and I was a bum-bailiff.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

They made it real nice, too, and slicked up considerable.
— from Clover by Susan Coolidge

As I love contrasts, I went this evening straight from the temple crowded with the dead, to the market-place, equally populous in another way, and equally well lighted, where all sorts of provisions are sold under covered galleries.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von