Lady Jane blushed too as she held out a kind little hand to Miss Briggs, and said something very civil and incoherent about mamma, and proposing to call on Miss Crawley, and being glad to be made known to the friends and relatives of Mr. Crawley; and with soft dove-like eyes saluted Miss Briggs as they separated, while Pitt Crawley treated her to a profound courtly bow, such as he had used to H.H. the Duchess of Pumpernickel, when he was attache at that court.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Soft little hands, too, were creeping over my coat and back, touching even my neck.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

thani minores , or inferior thanes, to which rank ceorls or merchants could attain by the acquisition of sufficient landed property.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The field autocompleted itself: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, and brought up a picture of a beaten-up paperback along with links to web-stores, reviews, and the full text.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

And if any thing could overcome my chagrin at being landed in this contemptible place, it would be such a dinner with such an appetite.
— from Round Cape Horn Voyage of the Passenger-Ship James W. Paige, from Maine to California in the Year 1852 by J. (Joseph) Lamson

The smaller cutter with an officer, his second, and a boat's crew, I proposed should remain with the stores, and in charge of my charts and books for a few weeks longer than the two months; and then go to Port Jackson also, should no vessel arrive before that time.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Coat of motley, cap and bells, O'er his bier shall dolefully jingle; Conjurors all shall bear his pall, And mountebanks follow it, married and single! Giants, dwarfs in sable scarfs.
— from Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 2 by George Daniel

Returning from Point Reyes to Olema, your road bears you past Tomales Bay, and back to the coast of Mendocino County; and by the time you reach the mouth of Russian River you are in the saw-mill country.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

A change of manners could also be observed in passing from Burgundy and Lorraine, where society relished of German bluntness, into the pastoral country of Provence, where the influence of a fine climate and melodious language, joined to the pursuits of the romantic old monarch, with the universal taste for music and poetry, had introduced a civilisation of manners which approached to affectation.
— from Anne of Geierstein; Or, The Maiden of the Mist. Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter Scott

May the small Spanish garrison, followed by the Cabildo or municipal corporation, and by many of the citizens of the town, in all about 2800 persons, marched out with the honours of war.
— from The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Clarence Henry Haring

I made use of this opportunity to address a letter to the Mohammedans of India, explaining the grounds for my Moslem sympathies, encouraging the Hindustani to persevere in the adopted course of modern culture, and by all means to hold fast to the English Government, the only free and humane power of the West.
— from The story of my struggles: the memoirs of Arminius Vambéry, Volume 2 by Ármin Vámbéry

When Philippa at length rejoined me, I found that she also had arrived at a conclusion, impelled thereto by the counsels of Mrs. Cadogan, abetted by her own conscience.
— from Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. by E. Oe. (Edith Oenone) Somerville

Another portion of the Jhodpore legion was at Jhodpore itself, where the mutiny placed in great peril Captain Monck Mason, British resident at that native state; by his energy, he provided an asylum for many ladies and children who had been driven from other stations; but he himself fell by the swords of a body of mutinous troopers, under circumstances of mingled cowardice and brutality.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd