‘She couldn’t even have a baby like anybody else,’ said my aunt.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

When the Chota Lord Sahib was announced, Kailas Balm ran panting and puffing and trembling to the door, and led in a friend of mine, in disguise, with repeated salaams, bowing low at each step, and walking backward as best he could.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first slight noise, when he had turned in the bed.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

He was so twitchy that when he rounded a corner and chanced on two acquaintances talking—whispering—his heart leaped, and he stalked by like an embarrassed schoolboy.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

No, I have no one to blame; I can only resign myself to the bitterest, cruelest fate that can befall a woman—to be loved and eagerly sought, won, and adored for a brief hour, then thrown carelessly aside—a mere plaything, unworthy of serious thought.
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

But first it must be proven that the present form of marriage and its effect on motherhood is not necessarily permanent, but, like all else, subject to natural development and change.
— from Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature by Various

It was played on the steps of an immense white building that was once the Stock Exchange, a building with a classical colonnade on three sides of it, with a vast flight of steps in front, that did not extend the whole width of the building but left at each side a platform that was level with the floor of the
— from The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism by Bertrand Russell

Ninety years afterwards the one stage-coach between London and Edinburgh started once a month from each city.
— from Rambles on Railways by Roney, Cusack P., Sir

But Eli had been looking around ever since they landed, and it was his settled conviction that the country in that section had all the color of a copper region.
— from Canoe Mates in Canada; Or, Three Boys Afloat on the Saskatchewan by St. George Rathborne

I see, in fact, old London rise From smokeless ashes, like a Phœnix, To moral planes where Beauty lies And Electricity supplies The motive power of pure Hygienics.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, January 28, 1914 by Various