Having uttered these words Dmitri ceased speaking as suddenly as he had begun.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She felt utterly friendless; could he come immediately?—though when he did come she would only be able to see him at limited times, the rules of the establishment she found herself in being strict to a degree.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

The fury of the tempest immediately died away, and a dead calm sullenly succeeded.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

deep, C; dep , S; deop , S, MD; dyep , MD; dup , MD; depe , sb. , S2, C3; deopre , comp. , S; deope , adv. , S; deoppre , comp. , S; depper , C3.—AS. déop ; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

"Bear with me, my dear child," she cried; "for truly my heart is full to the brim!
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

As he found them positively obstinate, he sent for them all together, and said to them: “Children, since for your good and quiet I have not been able to persuade you no longer to aspire to the Princess, your cousin, I think it would not be amiss if every one traveled separately into different countries, so that you might not meet each other.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Crying never helps any one, Davy-boy, and—” “I ain’t crying ‘cause Dora fell down cellar,” said Davy, cutting short Anne’s wellmeant preachment with increasing bitterness.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“And so, my dear count,” said D’Artagnan, “his eminence didn’t actually insist on our attending him; it is Du Vallon and I who have insisted, and even in a manner somewhat impolite, perhaps, so great was our longing to see you.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

About five miles further up its source was found to be a spring among rocks in a dense calamus scrub.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

See the Abbé Hohoff in Démocratie Chrétienne , Sept. 1898, p. 284.]
— from An Essay on Mediæval Economic Teaching by George Augustine Thomas O'Brien

"He is a Catholic,—and some of the members think—" "Of course they do, but I am the head of this house," declared Carol, standing on tiptoe and assuming her most lordly air.
— from Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston

7. Croton oil, 1 drop, Castile soap, 20 gr., conserve to form a ball.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

Dead citizens stick upon the walls, and lie pulverised on the sounding-board over the clergyman's head, and when a gust of air comes, tumble down upon him.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

Men do constantly seek to lower its standard; they feel that they cannot get [261] up to it, and they therefore seek to bring it down to them; but the effort is in vain: it stands forth in all its purity, majesty, and stern inflexibility, and will not accept a single hair's breadth short of perfect obedience; and where is the man, regenerate or unregenerate, that can undertake to produce that?
— from Notes on the book of Exodus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

And yet the oath misliked him; there was a savor of the demoniacal contract; still that was to be borne and the plunge taken, for there fluttered the huge sum before his dazzled eyes.
— from The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington