The alliance of Faustina, the widow of the emperor Constantius, who intrusted herself and her daughter to the hands of the usurper, added dignity and reputation to his cause.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Edward begged for a long while, the maternal kiss probably not offering sufficient recompense for the trouble he must take to obtain it; however at length he decided, leaped out of the window into a cluster of heliotropes and daisies, and ran to his mother, his forehead streaming with perspiration.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

When they had ended their discourse, and returned to Heaven with the angelic spirits, there remained with the blessed Fursa, the three angels of whom we have spoken before, and who were to bring him back to the body.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Who, upon his offer, thanked him very heartily, though preserving his proper distance, and replied that he was come there about a lady, now an inmate of Horne’s house, that was in an interesting condition, poor body, from woman’s woe (and here he fetched a deep sigh) to know if her happiness had yet taken place.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The Epitaph was in St. George's Church at Doncaster, and ran thus: 'How now, who is heare?
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Anon Sir Gringamors departed, and rode till he came to Sir Beaumains, and found him as he lay sleeping by the water-side.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The pipes began to be puffed in a silence which had an air of severity; the more important customers, who drank spirits and sat nearest the fire, staring at each other as if a bet were depending on the first man who winked; while the beer-drinkers, chiefly men in fustian jackets and smock-frocks, kept their eyelids down and rubbed their hands across their mouths, as if their draughts of beer were a funereal duty attended with embarrassing sadness.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

" Outraged Susan, who detested any reference to her age—not from vanity but from a haunting dread that people might come to think her too old to work—returned to her "Notes." "'Carl Meredith and Shirley Blythe came home last Friday evening from Queen's Academy.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

"We can't afford at this time to do a rash thing," he said, and winked jovially at Johnson.
— from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

These are the only ideas our minds ordinarily attach to such language,—this is the only experience we have of Unity; and if the words, when applied to God, bear a different meaning, and so have a tendency to deceive us, some caution, we think, would have been given by a God who was delivering a Revelation to his Children.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

It was with surprise, disappointment, and regret that he listened to Mary's story.
— from The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Her brother considered that if he did not give up his daughter for this purpose, he should fail in duty and respect towards his sister, and incur the displeasure of their household god.
— from Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before by George Turner

Mary's heart swelled at the thoughts of submitting to such an indignity, especially as she was beginning to feel conscious that Colonel Lennox was not quite the object of indifference to her that he ought to be; but her cousin's remarks only served to render her more distant and reserved to him than ever.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

[Pg 168] had reached the bottom, and a few moments afterwards, went down a rope to his boat.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss