I did as I was directed, and so great was the agony of delight when we died away that she sank on the bed dragging me after her, and we lay almost insensible, soaking in bliss for quite half an hour.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

“What is to be done, my dear Emma?—what is to be done?” was Mr. Woodhouse's first exclamation, and all that he could say for some time.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

By degrees Mr. Duncan Ross took to coming in only once of a morning, and then, after a time, he did not come in at all.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Duȝti , adj. fit, excellent, brave, doughty, MD; doughty , C2, G; douȝtiore , comp. , S2.—AS. dyhtig , strong.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

Jean Valjean, with the gentleness of movement which a brother would exercise towards his wounded brother, deposited Marius on the banquette of the sewer.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

’Tis to be doubted, madam.
— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

" A man's business does more to make him than anything else.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

His face looked pale and sunken, his temples looked hollow, his eyes were bigger, darker, more staring, as though they belonged to someone else, and they had an expression of insufferable mental agony.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Last holidays you licked the paint off my lozenge-box, and the holidays before that you let the boat drag my fish-line down when I'd set you to watch it, and you pushed your head through my kite, all for nothing."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“Yes; but dear me,” cried Polly, springing up, “the children are coming!
— from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

An armed force led by determined men from without, aided by traitors within, and backed by unscrupulous persons who would be willing to risk one million pounds sterling on the chance of making two millions, might easily—or if not easily, yet with pains—bring back the corrupt days of Balta and Castilla, and, with shame
— from Peru in the Guano Age Being a Short Account of a Recent Visit to the Guano Deposits, with Some Reflections on the Money They Have Produced and the Uses to Which It Has Been Applied by A. J. (Alexander James) Duffield

Should there have been an escape of the contents of the bowel the ``toilet of the peritoneum'' would be duly made, and a drainage-tube would be left in.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

C'est bien dit, madame; il est fort bon Anglais.
— from King Henry V by William Shakespeare

If purer and stronger soda-ash is wanted, the boiling down must be carried out in pans fired from below, and the crystals of monohydrated sodium carbonate ``fished'' out as they are formed, but this is mostly done after submitting the liquor to the purifying operations which we shall now describe.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The 'bus driver, Mr. Bennett, the proprietor of two attendant “cut-unders,” and three or four other worthies whom business, or the lack of it, called to that locality, availed themselves of the shelter of the waiting-room, but the gentlemen of the “Herald” were too agitated to be confined, save by the limits of the horizon.
— from The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington

I recall the period of my seclusion, of my solitary walks, of the fleeting but delicious days that I have passed entirely by myself, with my good and simple housekeeper, with my beloved dog, my old cat, with the birds of the field, the hinds of the forest, with all nature, and her inconceivable Author.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Never did mortal know such unalloyed happiness as blessed Martine, as he became daily more convinced that Helen was not giving herself to him merely from the promptings of compassion.
— from Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

Ought we not for this most vital business of education to be ever on the watch for the highest mind and the finest spirit of the day to guide us? To secure the appointment of such a man, or triumvirate, by democratic means, would need a special sifting process of election, which could never be too close and careful.
— from Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy