This he bore unmoved, and his enemies, finding that severity only rendered him more determined, tried the opposite course, and placed him in the house of the dean of Christ-church, where he was treated with every indulgence.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Jurgen threw his right arm round Clara, and pressed her to him.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

In vain he said to himself that, if permitted, it would be a divine visitation, a chastisement, a preparation; he recoiled from the imagined burning; and he judged that it must be more for the Divine glory that he should escape dishonor.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Mouse gets up, walks the stage for a moment or so before she returns to her chair and pours him out, oh, such a brimming, such a burning cup that the tears come into the friend’s eyes while he sips—while he drains it to the bitter dregs. . . .)
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

In Courts and Palaces he also Reigns And in luxurious Cities, where the noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Towrs, And injury and outrage:
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Another period of two years afforded Palæologus and Manuel the means of escape: it was contrived by the magic or subtlety of a monk, who was alternately named the angel or the devil: they fled to Scutari; their adherents armed in their cause; and the two Byzantine factions displayed the ambition and animosity with which Cæsar and Pompey had disputed the empire of the world.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Why, that's resolute, master Stephen!—Now, if I can but hold him up to his height, as it is happily begun, it will do well for a suburb humour: we may hap have a match with the city, and play him for forty pound.—Come, coz. Step.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Consciousness and personality have also been found to involve no limit, in the proper sense of that term.
— 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

“Poison—death!” exclaimed Valentine, half believing herself under the influence of some feverish hallucination; “what are you saying, sir?” “Hush, my child,” said Monte Cristo, again placing his finger upon her lips, “I did say poison and death.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

What an air suddenly comes in with them of old Courts and polished halls when all gentlemen bowed low before all ladies, and wore swords to defend their honor.
— from Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction by Thomas Nelson Page

Nicolas drew back in the cave and pulled himself to his feet in spite of the dwarf's frantic efforts to hold him down.
— from The Boy Allies in the Balkan Campaign; Or, the Struggle to Save a Nation by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes

The first week’s strain was released, but the mood of the people began to make a slow change, such a change as Pearse had foreseen.
— from A Chronicle of Jails by Darrell Figgis

"He's only a coon, and perhaps he deserves all he got; but it makes me shiver to think of his being hunted like a wild beast, all the same.
— from Chums in Dixie; or, The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat by St. George Rathborne

[101] CHAPTER FIFTEEN John Moore Mallory sat on the single metal chair within his cell and pressed his face against the tiny vision port.
— from Empire by Clifford D. Simak

No matter how thick the birds were, how easy it seemed to choose a point, he would stand quietly in the bow of the boat with the sea-glass in his hand scanning the movements of the flocks and deliberately selecting the best place.
— from Florida and the Game Water-Birds of the Atlantic Coast and the Lakes of the United States With a full account of the sporting along our sea-shores and inland waters, and remarks on breech-loaders and hammerless guns by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt

The controversy about progressive heredity still continues here and there.
— from The Wonders of Life: A Popular Study of Biological Philosophy by Ernst Haeckel

If the little boy had the legs of a centipede and played his chosen instrument with these instead of two dingy little hands, he could not perpetrate more false notes.
— from The Champagne Standard by Lane, John, Mrs.

In state and Church alike patriotism has tended more and more to become dominant over the interests that are supralocal and universal.
— from Our Lady Saint Mary by J. G. H. (Joseph Gayle Hurd) Barry