Margaret comforted her as well as she could, but she could hardly explain to her how this idea of Spain, mere château en Espagne as it might be, charmed and delighted her.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Thus circumstanced, she tried to banish reflection, but her busy fancy would still hover over the subjects of her interest, and she heard the clock of the castle strike two, before she closed her eyes.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

She now retired to her bed, leaving the lamp burning on the table; but its gloomy light, instead of dispelling her fear, assisted it; for, by its uncertain rays, she almost fancied she saw shapes flit past her curtains and glide into the remote obscurity of her chamber.—The castle clock struck one before she closed her eyes to sleep.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

My grandmother took me to the inn, and dinner was served, but she could hardly eat anything in her astonishment at the voracity with which I was swallowing my food.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They must have gone to your house already to hunt for the boys.” Sisa covered her ears and opened her mouth to speak, but her lips moved without giving out any sound.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Walton followed the coast of Nipon down to latitude 33°, but Spangberg confined his explorations to the region between 39° and 37° 30' N. The country was very rich.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

The ground afterwards becoming somewhat clear he espied a horse without any rider, towards which he crawled, and was about to mount, when a French trooper galloping up cut him down in the midst of his hopes, inflicting several severe wounds on his body.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

She heard the savages coming towards the spot, eager to imbrue their hands in innocent blood; she could have escaped with three of the children by abandoning the youngest; the night, the grass, and the bushes, offered concealment—but how could the mother leave her helpless babe to certain destruction?
— from The Women of The American Revolution, Vol. 2 by E. F. (Elizabeth Fries) Ellet

Joseph was told the moon would become full again, but sleep closed his eyes when he should have been waking, and in the morning he was full of fear that perhaps Samuel had come and gone away disappointed at not finding him awake.
— from The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story by George Moore

The Emperor Francis alone having to defray the expenses of the war, the conditions on which peace should be signed concerned him exclusively.
— from The Camp-fires of Napoleon Comprising The Most Brilliant Achievemnents of the Emperor and His Marshals by Henry C. (Henry Clay) Watson

Stunned and blinded, she covered her eyes, and remained thus till the fury of the tempest had in some degree abated.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Had Lucy's spirit been such as they were wont to be, she could have enjoyed this little blunder of Alice's; but now her heart, like some precious jewel that lies too deep in the bosom of the ocean for the sun's strongest beams to reach, had sunk beneath the influence of either cheerfulness or mirth.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

He did not allow his zeal to take him any farther, but suddenly caught himself exclaiming: 'Ah!
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola