When Andrey Ilyitch had finished the last course, she had already resolved to tell him everything and so escape from danger.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To Rosamond she was one of those county divinities not mixing with Middlemarch mortality, whose slightest marks of manner or appearance were worthy of her study; moreover, Rosamond was not without satisfaction that Mrs. Casaubon should have an opportunity of studying her .
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The bullocks and the camel said, half aloud, “Afraid of Two Tails—what nonsense!”
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

And I want to arrange when I can see him again."
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Anon Sir Colgrevance saw him, and cried out to him for help, for now Sir Lionel had nigh defeated him.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

Deborah, I know, rather wished to go, and went so far as to order a new bonnet for the occasion: but when the time came she had a bad cold; so they sent her a very polite account of what they had done.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"You can see him at vespers in the church, if you like to go, any day," said the profound janitor, whose matter-of-fact mind comprehended alone the mere meaning of each word.
— from Darnley; or, The Field of the Cloth of Gold by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

And if there wasn’t Polly, in a great gilt cage, swinging high above the Fat Lady’s chariot!
— from Sonny Boy by Sophie Miriam Swett

Rings with colored stones, however, are not in vogue for engagements.
— from The Complete Bachelor: Manners for Men by Walter Germain

As she trod the staircase, narrow, but carpeted thickly, as she entered the eating-room, where saddles of mutton were being trundled up to expectant clergymen, she had a strong, if erroneous, conviction of her own futility, and wished she had never come out of her backwater, where nothing happened except art and literature, and where no one ever got married or succeeded in remaining engaged.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

How could I help, at eight years of age, being confined six hours a day in a school, where the word "ventilation" was only known as an object of spelling?
— from Smoking and Drinking by James Parton

There were also seventeen chapels, sixteen hospitals, and nine monasteries.
— from York by George Benson

If she could see him and not be known herself that would be a degree of satisfaction.
— from If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody