She chatted away volubly, and seemed full of a light-headed sort of satisfaction with herself and her position.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

There is one certain exception however in this case, and that is, when you are so fortunate a fellow, as to have had your jerkin made of gum-taffeta, and the body-lining to it of a sarcenet, or thin persian. 286 Zeno, Cleanthes, Diogenes Babylonius, Dionysius, Heracleotes, Antipater, Panætius, and Possidonius amongst the Greeks ;—— Cato and Varro and Seneca amongst the Romans ;—— Pantenus and Clemens Alexandrinus and Montaigne amongst the Christians; and a score and a half of good, honest, unthinking Shandean people as ever lived, whose names
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The old church, all vibrating and sonorous, was in a perpetual joy of bells.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

And 'tis true they say: for by the naughtiness of men it is so come to pass, as [4415] Caussinus observes, ut castis auribus vox amoris suspecta sit, et invisa , the very name of love is odious to chaster ears; and therefore some again, out of an affected gravity, will dislike all for the name's sake before they read a word; dissembling with him in [4416] Petronius, and seem to be angry that their ears are violated with such obscene speeches, that so they may be admired for grave philosophers and staid carriage.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I am a physician and was requested—five minutes ago—to come and visit a sick man at George's Shooting Gallery."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The parts of this region, which present themselves to your consideration and view, are such as serve to nutrition or generation.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

By and by comes Povy, Creed, and Vernatty, and so to their accounts, wherein more trouble and vexation with Povy.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The acid Salt dissolved in Water, is the same with Oil of Sulphur per Campanam , and abounding much in the Bowels of the Earth, and particularly in Markasites, unites it self to the other Ingredients of the Markasite, which are, Bitumen, Iron, Copper, and Earth, and with them compounds Allum, Vitriol, and Sulphur.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Daspry stepped down from the chair, approached Varin, and said: “Now, no more nonsense with me.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

All who enter the cordon will be considered as volunteers, and set to carry water.
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

The letters printed in the foregoing chapter are valuable as settling at first-hand all question of the chronology of the poems of Rossetti’s volume of 1870.
— from Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Caine, Hall, Sir

Stern twisted his chair around viciously and sat down.
— from The Best Made Plans by Everett B. Cole

“Howdy, signorita!” called a voice as she reached the top of the stairs.
— from My Queen: A Weekly Journal for Young Women. Issue 5, October 27, 1900 Marion Marlowe Entrapped; or, The Victim of Professional Jealousy by Lurana Sheldon

And I'm on my last cake of soap, and we need crackers, and vanilla, and sugar, unless you're not going to have a dessert, and salad oil—" "Just get me a pencil, will you?"
— from The Treasure by Kathleen Thompson Norris

“No, no, but Ephraim thinks that the trouble is not so much with the cow, a valuable animal, so he tells me, but with the cowhouse.
— from Whitewash by Horace Annesley Vachell

—After the downfall of Napoleon the rulers of Europe met in conference at Vienna and sought to restore conditions as they had been before the war.
— from A School History of the Great War by Charles Augustin Coulomb

Adding Professor Davidson and his assistants to their party, the Active returned to Kootznahoo, and visited the coal mine near Chief Andres village, and spent another day on a fishing frolic in Clam Bay.
— from Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

In Russia and Turkey, as in France and America, notwithstanding the frequent changes of officials, the greater number are often covetous and venal, and so little to be commended from the point of view of morality that they do not satisfy even the elementary exigencies of honesty demanded in government posts.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf