Dr. Bangs came, said Beth had symptoms of the fever, but thought she would have it lightly, though he looked sober over the Hummel story.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

You do look, my son, in a moved sort, As if you were dismay'd: be cheerful, sir.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Why, I pray you, have I Been countenanced by you, or you by me? Do but collect, sir, where I met you first.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Pressed down by care, she cannot rise From sorrow's flood wherein she lies.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Thanks to you, quoth Panurge, in turning himself towards Goatsnose, my little sewer, pretty master’s mate, dainty bailie, curious sergeant-marshal, and jolly catchpole-leader.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

After the marriage they have a feast, the cost of which is defrayed by contributions solicited from their parents.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

He wore an extremely worried expression when the nurse talked with him and showed him the almost untouched tray of breakfast she had saved for him to look at—but it was even more worried when he sat down by Colin's sofa and examined him.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Social types as well as status are indirectly determined by competition, since most of them are vocational.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Ancient dovecot, Berwick Court, Sussex.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

A sheet consists of many pieces, each with a deep black centre surrounded by a dark red margin.
— from At the Court of the Amîr: A Narrative by John Alfred Gray

Even had the day been cool she must have been warm, for she wore more layers of clothing than usual, having deposited some fresh strata in honor of her wealthy mother-in-law.
— from The Mettle of the Pasture by James Lane Allen

Judkins is always dressed from head to foot in a decent black cloth suit; his coat is ever a dress coat, and is neither old nor shabby.
— from George Walker at Suez by Anthony Trollope

exclaimed the sister of the Proprietary, taking the book and reading the title-page—"' La très joyeuse et plaisante Histoire, composéc par le Loyal Serviteur, des faits, gestes et prouesses du bon Chevalier sans peur et sans reproche. '
— from Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's. Vol. 1 (of 2) by John Pendleton Kennedy

For the devil delighted in giving himself various names, as when he caused [Pg 134] himself to be called Peter Drysdale, by Catherine Sands and Laurie Moir, and Peter Saleway by others.
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

Deserted by Conti, she became, naturally, a great artist in dress, in coquetry, in artificial flowers of all kinds.
— from Beatrix by Honoré de Balzac