Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits, That hold their honors in a wary distance, The very elements of this warlike isle, Have I tonight fluster'd with flowing cups, And they watch too.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I couldn't stand this brightness, but Captain Nemo stared straight at it, as if to inhale the spirit of the storm.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

And as when a bull stung by a gadfly tears along, leaving the meadows and the marsh land, and recks not of herdsmen or herd, but presses on, now without cheek, now standing still, and raising his broad neck he bellows loudly, stung by the maddening fly; so he in his frenzy now would ply his swift knees unresting, now again would cease from toil and shout afar with loud pealing cry.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

"Certainly not," she said.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

He came near success, some of his troops penetrating the National lines at least once, but the works that were built after Halleck's departure enabled Rosecrans to hold his position until the troops of both McPherson and Hurlbut approached towards the rebel front and rear.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Razumihin could not sit still on his chair.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

render insensible &c. adj.; anaesthetize[obs3], blunt, pall, obtund[obs3], benumb, paralyze; put under the influence of chloroform &c. n.; stupefy, stun.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"Come, now," she said, "tell Granny all about it!
— from The Belgian Twins by Lucy Fitch Perkins

Louisa rose, and Luke said in matter-of-fact tones: "I'll put you into a cab." "No," she said, "I prefer to walk.
— from The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

As on the contrary, no single Step should be omitted in that just and regular Progress which it must be supposed to take from its Original to its Consummation.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

Managers will take liberties, and often curtail necessary speeches, so as to produce nonsense.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

The general close agreement in all cases, notwithstanding some small divergences, of the bright bands in the cometary light with those seen in the spectra of hydrocarbons, justifies us fully in ascribing the original light of these comets to matter which contains carbon in combination with hydrogen.”
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, December 1882 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle by Chautauqua Institution

"You do not mind my coming now?" she said, ignoring the latter half of his speech.
— from Mitchelhurst Place: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Margaret Veley