Wherever Miss Clavering went, this infatuated young fellow continued to follow her; and being aware that his engagement to his cousin was known in the world, he was forced to make a mystery of his passion, and confine it to his own breast, so that it was so pent in there and pressed down, that it is a wonder he did not explode some day with the stormy secret, and perish collapsed after the outburst.
— from The History of Pendennis by William Makepeace Thackeray

But at the Hanbridge Empire they had reappeared in an art highly conventionalised.
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

He who resists is cut down; the coward who surrenders has his hands bound, and the horseman either takes him up on his saddle (in which case his feet are bound under the horse's belly), or drives him before him: whenever from any cause this is not possible, the wretched man is attached to the tail of the animal, and has for hours and hours--yes, for days and days--to follow the robber to his desert home.
— from Travels in Central Asia Being the Account of a Journey from Teheran Across the Turkoman Desert on the Eastern Shore of the Caspian to Khiva, Bokhara, and Samarcand by Ármin Vámbéry

So urgent was his need to be alone that he even turned his back on his dog.
— from The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest by Hulbert Footner

And there he duly performed a śráddha , in which he bestowed many gifts on Bráhmans, and then he entered the Holy Wood.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

It was the second time to-day that this divine wastage in nature had forced itself on my thought, and this morning the spectacle was on a scale of tragic greatness beyond anything that has ever touched human life in this part of the country:
— from Aftermath Part second of "A Kentucky Cardinal" by James Lane Allen

" He drew a long breath, and then he explained to her about the West Virginia people, and how he had got an extension of the first time they had given him, and had got a man to go up to Lapham with him and look at the works,--a man that had turned up in New York, and wanted to put money in the business.
— from The Rise of Silas Lapham by William Dean Howells

Born on the hill of Montmartre, between the Solferino tower and the mill of La Galette, Ben Zoof had ever possessed the most unreserved admiration for his birthplace; and to his eyes the heights and district of Montmartre represented an epitome of all the wonders of the world.
— from Off on a Comet! a Journey through Planetary Space by Jules Verne

You see that I am as disheartened as you are and indignant, alas! without being able to hate either the human race or our poor, dear country.
— from The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by George Sand

When it was found that no sufficient evidence could be adduced to hold either the husband of the murdered girl, or his mother, then was demanded an exhibition of that almost forgotten "ordeal of touch."
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow