he cried, “I wish your father might be half as easily convinced as John will be, of our having every right that equal worth can give, to be happy together.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

On the front-door steps he turned; once again he looked at the moon, at the grey cathedral, over the remoter spires and house-roofs fading into a blue sea of night-mist; he tasted the sweet breath of dusk, and noted the folded bloom of the garden; he suddenly looked round; a keen beam out of his eye rased the white façade of the classes, swept the long line of croisées.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Natásha’s illness was so serious that, fortunately for her and for her parents, the consideration of all that had caused the illness, her conduct and the breaking off of her engagement, receded into the background.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

While Friedrich was pushing into Neipperg, in the Baumgarten Country, and could get no battle out of him, Excellency Robinson reappears at Breslau; Maria Theresa, after deadly efforts on his part, has mended her offers, in these terrible circumstances; and Robinson is here again.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 13 by Thomas Carlyle

"I shall not need," says the same writer, "to describe his behaviour for the time of sermon, his sorrowful countenance, his heavy cheer, his face bedewed with tears; sometimes lifting his eyes to heaven in hope, sometimes casting them down to the earth for shame—to be brief, an image of sorrow, the dolour of his heart bursting out of his eyes, retaining ever a quiet and grave behaviour, which increased the pity in men's hearts."
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude

Out of him shall come the corner-stone; out of him, the nail; out of him, the battle bow; out of him every ruler together.
— from An Amicable Controversy with a Jewish Rabbi, on The Messiah's Coming With an Entirely New Exposition of Zechariah, on the Messiah's Kingdom by John Ranicar Park

The pretty head of one of the Pearls of the Harem had been struck off by order of Hámed e’ Rufäy—the iron will of the great Sultan, Ruler of the Ahír and Defender of the Faith, had been obeyed!
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

As a tiny boy one of his earliest recollections was of slipping out of bed and, evading nurses and servants, stealing out into the park at Craven Towers to seek the healing of the night for some childish heartache.
— from The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

In regal style this prince was borne in a litter, as became one of his exalted rank, and he now styled himself Sultan.
— from A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908 by C. A. Bampfylde