Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself), was yet behind.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

[3] le acaba de hacer al micho.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

She would have liked to discuss his admirable mannerisms with a reliable mutual friend.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

One of the band pointed out that if Alfonso had twelve times as much, Benito three times as much, Carlos the same amount, Diego half as much, and Esteban one-third as much, they would still have altogether just 200 doubloons.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

As regards my young friend, I must beg to add, that in every point of worldly advantage he is, at least, on an equal footing with yourself, if not on a much better one, and that unless I hear this question discussed with becoming temper and moderation, I decline hearing any more said upon the subject.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Others again are engendered by copulation, as men and others of that kind; and some are composed in one way, and others in another; on which account they also differ in their senses, as for instance, hawks are very keen-sighted; dogs have a most acute scent.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Or if it be so they dare not or cannot execute any such tyrannical injustice, they will miscall, rail and revile, bear them deadly hate and malice, as [6133]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

As Mortimer Lightwood sat before the blazing fire, conscious of drinking brandy and water then and there in his sleep, and yet at one and the same time drinking burnt sherry at the Six Jolly Fellowships, and lying under the boat on the river shore, and sitting in the boat that Riderhood rowed, and listening to the lecture recently concluded, and having to dine in the Temple with an unknown man, who described himself as M. H. F. Eugene Gaffer Harmon, and said he lived at Hailstorm,—as he passed through these curious vicissitudes of fatigue and slumber, arranged upon the scale of a dozen hours to the second, he became aware of answering aloud a communication of pressing importance that had never been made to him, and then turned it into a cough on beholding Mr Inspector.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Sandoval, finding that nothing further was to be got out of them, granted their request, for which they appeared very grateful, and offered to do him all manner of good services.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

St. Marleau did not every day have a murder of its own!
— from The Sin That Was His by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

You drop down here and make your way along until you can get a chance to shoot.
— from The Outdoor Chums After Big Game; Or, Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness by Quincy Allen

Mr. Plantagenet Russell looked at his despised heiress a moment to see if she was in earnest.
— from Harum Scarum's Fortune by Esmè Stuart

“Did he ask Miss Eunice to come in, too?”
— from Port Argent: A Novel by Arthur Colton

We drove him another mile on foot, and down he fell to die.
— from Australia Twice Traversed The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative Compiled from the Journals of Five Exploring Expeditions into and Through Central South Australia and Western Australia, from 1872 to 1876 by Ernest Giles

In my eyes, the Lutrin, the Dispensary, and the Rape of the Lock, are standards of grace and elegance, not to be paralleled by antiquity; and eternal reproaches to Voltaire, whose indelicacy in the Pucelle degraded him as much, when compared with the three authors I have named, as his Henriade leaves Virgil, and even Lucan whom he more resembles, by far his superiors.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

It was Prince Poniotowsky, whom Dan had already met at the Galorey shoot.
— from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

Your request was for a man capable of impersonating a well-to-do patient, or a member of the administrative staff of a distant hospital; a man who may be given full run of the hospital and thereby an opportunity, we gather, to question, without creating suspicion, in every department.
— from The Hospital Murders by Means Davis

Some of the officers stayed at the Donegana Hotel, and many of them messed in the building opposite Dalhousie Square, where the band played in the evening; but the bulk of the higher officers put up at the St. Lawrence Hall.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

I would describe how all Mirgorod sleeps; how steadily the myriads of stars gaze down upon it; how the apparent quiet is filled far and near with the barking of dogs; how the love-sick sacristan steals past them, and scales the fence with knightly fearlessness; how the white walls of the houses, bathed in the moonlight, grow whiter still, the overhanging trees darker; how the shadows of the trees fall blacker, the flowers and the silent grass become more fragrant, and the crickets, unharmonious cavaliers of the night, strike up their rattling song in friendly fashion on all sides.
— from Taras Bulba, and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol