There was a dog howling all night under my window, which may have had something to do with it; or it may have been the paprika, for I had to drink up all the water in my carafe, and was still thirsty.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Louis XV., to give him his due, had a not unkindly feeling for animals.
— from The Presentation by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

The caterpillar is grabbed by the neck: lively contortions of the victim, which rolls the aggressor over and drags her along, now uppermost, now undermost in the struggle.
— from More Hunting Wasps by Jean-Henri Fabre

Sicily and Malta still defied him; and not until he seized Sicily could he gain the control of the Mediterranean—"the constant aim of my policy."
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Her poor arms, which had so long carried her dying daughter, her arms now unoccupied, forever empty, had found this cushion whilst she slept, and had coiled around them, as around a phantom, with a blind and frantic embrace.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 5 by Émile Zola

“No, my dear,” he answered, “not unless you are reflecting my own pleasure in seeing you like this.
— from Lola by Owen Davis

He, by proxy, stood in the shoes of one who, seemingly, had done her some irreparable wrong, and since she would dog him all night until she had had the interview that she evidently proposed to have, it might as well be here as anywhere.
— from Doors of the Night by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

Such derelict houses are no uncommon sight in the forest, grimly desolate mementoes of possible tragedies."
— from Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir