ye’re wanting?’ cried he, as if making a new discovery.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Historically it is of little importance, for it contains hardly any independent matter, all its verses except seventy-five being taken directly from the Rigveda .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

They have, however, packed him off to me in charge of some friends who happened to be coming home, and I must ask you to take him when he arrives, for I don't know what to do with him.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

As I remonstrated thus, I clasped her affectionately in my arms, caressing her most ardently; but before coming to the decisive action I asked her again whether she would promise not to go to confession next Sunday.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

His ambassadors at Constantinople had asked in marriage a Roman princess; but the proposal was decently eluded; and the daughter of Alexius, who might herself have been the victim, expresses her abhorrence of his unnatural conjunction.
— 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

The trunk had been packed full of papers—deeds, letters, bills, etc., which had been tied up in separate bundles, but the strings having given way in the force of the fall, they now lay in confused heaps and irretrievably mixed, as far as Maria was concerned.
— from The Heatherford Fortune a sequel to the Magic Cameo by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

In fact, the plan I had just conceived, had awakened in me a sort of new energy; and the hopes of safety that now presented themselves were as strong, and stronger, than any I had entertained since the first hour of my captivity.
— from The Boy Tar by Mayne Reid

I was in the Court House, and in my anger cried, 'Pull him down!'"
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

“Oh, she has always been that, you know,” he said, brightly, “ever since she was a little thing, and I used to carry her about in my arms, and string horse-chestnuts for her, when she was the funniest, merriest little creature, and so clever.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

She felt like Death itself when I carried her ashore in my arms——" "She'll be distressed for lack of clothes when she's ready to get up.
— from Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham

me kill thee now so sure as me be Biscayan,’” and when the knight called him an “inconsiderable mortal,” and said that if he were a gentleman he would chastise him: “‘What!
— from Familiar Spanish Travels by William Dean Howells

At breakfast this morning I rashly congratulated myself (in my wife’s hearing) on finding that a much smaller collection than usual of letters and cards had accumulated in my absence.
— from The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins

The Syriac Church has also its ministers at the holy see.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

He would suffer me to take him up and carry him about in my arms, and has more than once fallen fast asleep upon my knee.
— from Mrs. Loudon's Entertaining Naturalist Being popular descriptions, tales, and anecdotes of more than Five Hundred Animals. by Mrs. (Jane) Loudon