But when the echoes had fully ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly; the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.
— from The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

“The paperchase is worth the climb,” said Phyllis, “if we don't lose it.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

For, in fact, though I can to some extent distinguish sympathetic from strictly moral feelings in introspective analysis of my own consciousness, I cannot say precisely in what proportion these two elements are combined.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Neither can I any longer live without her companionship; so powerful is she to sustain,—so tender to soothe!
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

This conduct Sir Peter is indeed truly Generous!
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

From the corridor she passed into the entrance-hall, strange, weird shadows seeming to start into life from wall and ceiling, as though they had been suddenly disturbed in their sleep, as she crossed it with her feeble light.
— from The Heart of a Mystery by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

We carried this art to a high pitch of perfection, and could sometimes put in as much as 20 hours’ sleep in the 24.
— from Farthest North, Vol. II Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 by Fridtjof Nansen

After a while the thrice-lovely Nastasia came sailing past in her rose-red boat.
— from Fairy Tales from Many Lands by Katharine Pyle

All Mr. Browning's practical philosophy is summed up in this truth, and much of his religion; for it points to the necessity of a human manifestation of the Divine Being; and though Sordello's story contains no explicit reference to Christian doctrine, an unmistakeable Christian sentiment pervades its close.
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

In order the more easily to distinguish themselves from the train-band, the volunteers became artillery or light infantry or grenadiers or rifles or cavalry; and each class sought proficiency in some special kind of drill.
— from The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace by Frederick Morse Cutler

"Queen Maud," with her "orders" by Louisa Crow , Shows pride in a haughty young maiden brought low: While in the "Squire's Grandson," J. Callwell proves how A small boy can make up a family row.
— from Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, December 10, 1887 by Various

The Cagayan shopkeepers persist in cheating them at every opportunity, and the house of Montgomery, Ward & Co. does not.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

But, luckily for the Alabama, Admiral Wilkes and his captains were as ignorant of Captain Semmes’ presence in the gulf as he was of theirs in the channel.
— from Cruise and Captures of the Alabama by Albert M. Goodrich