Scarcely had he done regretting Mary Crawford, and observing to Fanny how impossible it was that he should ever meet with such another woman, before it began to strike him whether a very different kind of woman might not do just as well, or a great deal better: whether Fanny herself were not growing as dear, as important to him in all her smiles and all her ways, as Mary Crawford had ever been; and whether it might not be a possible, an hopeful undertaking to persuade her that her warm and sisterly regard for him would be foundation enough for wedded love.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Hundreds fell down as if they had been struck dead; and even the emperor, although he stood his ground, could not recover himself for some time.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Since his words are so contradictory, he must be judged by his deeds; and in these he always assumes that we have a positive knowledge of the infinite and absolute, else he would not have argued the matter; for there can be no argument about nothing.
— from Know the Truth: A Critique on the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation Including Some Strictures Upon the Theories of Rev. Henry L. Mansel and Mr. Herbert Spencer by Jesse Henry Jones

However, the king resolved to expose himself to dangers: accordingly he sailed to Rhodes, where Caesar then abode, and came to him without his diadem, and in the habit and appearance of a private person, but in his behavior as a king.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

While thus busied in searching the lodge he heard footsteps at the door, and immediately threw himself on the bed from which the young man had risen, and covered his face, feigning sleep.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“I used to talk a great deal about it to her, only to her,” he said thoughtfully.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Hundreds fell down as if they had been struck dead; and even the emperor, although he stood his ground, could not recover himself in some time I delivered up both my pistols, in the same manner as I had done my scimitar, and then my pouch of powder and bullets, begging him that the former might be kept from fire, for it would kindle with the smallest spark, and blow up his imperial palace into the air.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift

The chief guard would do anything I tell him.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My mistress, dearest; And I thus humble ever.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Full of dreadful anticipations, I tore home, and on arriving found Delia lying on the sofa in a violent fit of hysterics.
— from Animal Ghosts; Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter by Elliott O'Donnell

This the stream, Of which my fancy cherished So faithfully a waking dream, An image that hath perished?" Following in somewhat pensive mood, "its beautiful meanderings" through this hill-guarded valley, we come to St. Mary's Lake, lying in solemn but beautiful serenity among the mountains, whose heathy sides and bare cliffs are mirrored in her pellucid depths.
— from The Genius of Scotland; or, Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion by Robert Turnbull

He had already some experience of that lady's nerves and irascibility on the drive, and had begun to see his error in taking so dangerous an impediment to his flight from the country.
— from The Three Partners by Bret Harte

It was bent downward as if to hide it from the other people in the car.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

If no one, save the persons who lodged in the house, would be allowed to enter it, how would M. Charles Saurez contrive to call for the stolen document and, incidentally, to hand me over the ten thousand francs I was hoping for?
— from Castles in the Air by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

He spoke dreamily, as if to himself, all the while walking up and down the room, his hands crossed behind his back.
— from The Conscript: A Story of the French war of 1813 by Erckmann-Chatrian

The cholera was very prevalent at Varna that month, and those who dawdled about in the hot sun, at the mouth of the filthy drains of that accursed hole, found it unto their cost.
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

One of them gives the music of "Anitra's Dance" and "In the Hall of the Mountain King"; the other the scenes "Daybreak" and "Death of Aase."
— from The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players by Gustav Kobbé

Heyoka hovers over them in dreams, and informs them how many streaks to employ upon their bodies and the tinge they must have.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck