A ghastly light shining upon him that he didn't need, the beast so furious but a few minutes gone, was quiet enough now, with a strange mysterious writing on his face, reflected from one of the great bottles, as if Death had marked him: 'Mine.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I have been looking over his book, and I defy him, whatever happens, not to lose.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It is also certain that he is at present ensconced in the hide of a beast, and is doing his best to play the part of a cameleopard; but this is done for the better sustaining his dignity as king.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

I found Uriah Heep among the company, in a suit of black, and in deep humility.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

At home was Mr. Daniel and wife and sister, and dined with us, and I disturbed at dinner, Colonell Fitzgerald coming to me about tallies, which I did go and give him, and then to the office, where did much business and walked an hour or two with Lord Bruncker, who is mightily concerned in this business for Carcasse and against Sir W. Batten, and I do hope it will come to a good height, for I think it will be good for the King as well as for me, that they two do not agree, though I do, for ought I see yet, think that my Lord is for the most part in the right.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And for long she stayed there at the entrance of her chamber, held back by shame; and she turned back once more; and again she came forth from within, and again stole back; and idly did her feet bear her this way and that; yea, as oft as she went straight on, shame held her within the chamber, and though held back by shame, bold desire kept urging her on.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

He had a scar on his forehead, which did not so much injure his beauty as it denoted his valour (for he was a half-pay officer).
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

There was beauty, and it drew him irresistibly.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Cassandra bids; and I declare her doom.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

She had a turn for traffic, and a marked propensity for saving; shown not only in the vending of eggs and chickens, but also in driving hard bargains with the gardener about flower-roots, seeds, and slips of plants; that functionary having orders from Mrs. Reed to buy of his young lady all the products of her parterre she wished to sell: and Eliza would have sold the hair off her head if she could have made a handsome profit thereby.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

And you see that whatever has been, and is, dear, he's my man to stand by in this.
— from If Winter Comes by A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth) Hutchinson

Alexander Púshkin was born (as if destiny had intended, in assigning his [Pg 658] birth-place—the ancient capital of Russia, and still the dwelling-place of all that is most intense in Russian nationality—to predict all the stuff and groundwork of his character) at Moscow, on the 26th of May 1799.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 by Various

Guichen returned to Brest, and in deep humiliation resigned his command.
— from Rodney by David Hannay

As the black-fish rose, the thresher, who evidently had been waiting for him and knew the precise spot where he would reappear, threw himself up in the air, turning a sort of summersault; and, “whack!” came his whip-like tail round his victim’s body, the whale seeming to writhe under the blow as if driven half mad with pain.
— from The Wreck of the Nancy Bell; Or, Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by John C. (John Conroy) Hutcheson

First of all, the assistant matron was ill, and went away for a bit, and I did her work; then, when she came back, Matron went away for a fortnight, and I stayed on in the office helping the assistant.
— from A Nurse's Life in War and Peace by E. C. (Eleanor Constance) Laurence

But, as it did happen in one way rather than another, the way in which it did happen was said to be predetermined; the kind of cause was not examined which determined it to happen as it did happen; the effect was even said to rule the causes; and all the causes, remote and proximate, were said to be operative merely for the sake of producing the ultimate effect!
— from A Morning's Walk from London to Kew by Phillips, R. (Richard), Sir

But all is dark here," laying his hand on his breast,--"dark as the grave."
— from Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie

"At your service, M. le duc," replied the other as he came to a halt, and then stood with legs wide apart firmly planted upon the deck, his hands buried in the pockets of his heavy mantle, his head thrown back, as if defiantly, his whole attitude that of a master condescending to talk with slaves.
— from Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

“But Auntie, I DID hear something.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln