,” said Mr. Lorry, in a soothing tone, bringing his left hand from the back of the chair to lay it on the supplicatory fingers that clasped him in so violent a tremble: “pray control your agitation—a matter of business.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

She was trotting behind him with a mournful and famished look, her tail between her legs, her ears flattened against her head and stopping and starting whenever he did.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Among others, a worthy personage in years, who had served in the army with reputation, being incensed at the Supposed outrage, repaired to the lodging of the painter, and finding him at home, “Hark ye, Mr. Monkey,” said he, “I have a good mind to convince you, that though the bear has lost his teeth, he retains his paws, and that he is not so drunk but he can perceive your impertinence.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And I said yes, and she said she knew only one or two places about here, but had lost her way and couldn't find them.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But how long have you been here that you are ignorant of all this?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Dear Myra, the captive ribband's mine, 'Twas all my faithful love could gain; And would you ask me to resign The sole reward that crowns my pain? Go, bid the hero who has run Thro' fields of death to gather fame, Go, bid him lay his laurels down, And all his well-earn'd praise disclaim.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Midal-us ang íyang pagtan-aw gíkan sa líug ngadtu sa bitíis, He let his gaze move over her from her neck to her legs.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I sprang from my borrowed horse, letting him stray where he would, and fell upon the garment like a mother on her lost child, except that I, having taken it to my arms, whipped out my knife and proceeded to rip it up from top to bottom.
— from Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed

Far more visible before him lay his broken purpose, stripped of all disguise and easy palliation.
— from Admiral's Light by Henry Milner Rideout

That he is descended from old Christians, and is a good Christian himself, having set a good example wherever he has resided, living by his labor, hearing mass and sermons; that he knows the prayers, and in whatever he has failed, he has not offended wilfully; on all which accounts he concludes by supplicating the favor of your Excellency’s usual mercy.
— from Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts by Andrew Dickson White

But he let her go on.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

Her sister was asleep, her face hidden by her loosened hair and pressed into the pillow.
— from 'Jena' or 'Sedan'? by Franz Adam Beyerlein

Her rightness of bone, her limbs, her suppleness had gone to her boys; Reggie, on a visit in the country, was just as good, but it was her elder son who seemed the child of her soul as well as of her body.
— from The Disturbing Charm by Berta Ruck

The barred skirts she always fancied showed sharply beneath her diaphanous muslins; the diamonds often glittered on her breast as if for her own pleasure rather than to dazzle others; the asp-like bracelet hardly left her arm.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes