Mr. Darcy drew his chair a little towards her, and said, " You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

She had heard, as soon as she got back to Mrs. Goddard's, that Mr. Martin had been there an hour before, and finding she was not at home, nor particularly expected, had left a little parcel for her from one of his sisters, and gone away; and on opening this parcel, she had actually found, besides the two songs which she had lent Elizabeth to copy, a letter to herself; and this letter was from him, from Mr. Martin, and contained a direct proposal of marriage.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and, trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

What happy man to equal glories bring? Begin, begin thy noble choice, And let the hills around reflect the image of thy voice.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Isabel came at last to have a kind of undemonstrable pity for her; there seemed something so dreary in the condition of a person whose nature had, as it were, so little surface—offered so limited a face to the accretions of human contact.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Moreover, if there is a definite number of the qualities and attributes—the endowments of Deity, some one may learn the number, and what they are, and come at length to have a knowledge equal to God's knowledge.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

I told him, that I had talked of him to Mr. Dunning a few days before, and had said, that in his company we did not so much interchange conversation, as listen to him; and that Dunning observed, upon this, 'One is always willing to listen to Dr. Johnson:' to which I answered, 'That is a great deal from you, Sir.'—'Yes, Sir, (said Johnson,) a great deal indeed.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But from Bruxelles, knowing how the Lady Castlewood always liked to have a letter about the famous 29th of December, my lord writ her a long and full one, and in this he must have described the affair with Mohun; for when Mr. Esmond came to visit his mistress one day, early in the new year, to his great wonderment, she and her daughter both came up and saluted him, and after them the dowager of Chelsea, too, whose chairman had just brought her [pg 303] ladyship from her village to Kensington across the fields.
— from Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by William Makepeace Thackeray

The simpleton will always run after pleasure, and the pessimist will do all he can to give pain a wide berth; if, in spite of his efforts, the success of the latter is small, the fault is not so much his as that of fate; and if, in pursuance of this idea, he has taken a very roundabout way and uselessly sacrificed any amount of possible pleasures without any appreciable benefit, he can at least take heart again in the knowledge that he has in reality lost nothing at all, for the possible pleasures are such pure chimeras that it is simply childish to grieve about them.
— from The Philosophy of Disenchantment by Edgar Saltus

" It is true that Rome, vehemently as at first he rebelled against it, came at last to hold a power over him.
— from Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne

He read the card, rose from his chair, and left the house, as dignified as though he had been on the quarter deck of the Ben Lomond.
— from Brave Old Salt; or, Life on the Quarter Deck: A Story of the Great Rebellion by Oliver Optic

Lord Lambeth did not tell Percy Beaumont that the contingency he was not prepared at all to like had occurred; but Percy Beaumont, on hearing that the two ladies had left London, wondered with some intensity what had happened; wondered, that is, until the Duchess of Bayswater came a little to his assistance.
— from An International Episode by Henry James

And my people would become rich and powerful; they would be masters of all the country, from the salt waters to the big mountains; the deer would come and lick their hands, and the wild horses would graze around their wigwams. ’
— from Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat

He called Chouteau and Lapoulle to him and said: “Come along, and let's see what we can do.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

I was surprised that he seemed to take great delight in my sketching, and several times, when I was making notes of some quaint latticed windows overhanging the narrow road, so that they nearly met, he became quite excited, chuckling and laughing to himself, as if in the enjoyment of some tremendous joke.
— from A Dweller in Mesopotamia Being the Adventures of an Official Artist in the Garden of Eden by Donald Maxwell

Astronomers have found that The Pleiades cluster contains at least two hundred and fifty stars, all drifting slowly in the same general direction through space, and that the entire group is enveloped in a fiery, nebulous mist which is most dense around the brightest stars.
— from Astronomy for Young Folks by Isabel Martin Lewis