Why did he so quietly submit to the concealment Mr. Rochester enforced?
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Many a dun had she talked to, and turned away from her father's door; many a tradesman had she coaxed and wheedled into good-humour, and into the granting of one meal more.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

What did he say?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Our fellowships are only sufficient to support a man during his studies to fit him for the world, and accordingly in general they are held no longer than till an opportunity offers of getting away.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Porthos drew his sword from the scabbard, and made passes at the wall, springing back from time to time, and making contortions like a dancer.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Vexed in her dear heart, she sat near the wayside by the Maiden Well, from which the women of the place were used to draw water, in a shady place over which grew an olive shrub.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Before the beaver is stone dead, his soul takes a turn in the hut of the man who is killing him and makes a careful note of what is done with his bones.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

When Herod heard this confession, he was all over anger and fear, some parts seeming to him reproachful, and some made him suspicious of dangers that attended him, insomuch that on both accounts he was provoked, and bitterly afraid lest some more heavy plot was laid against him than he should be then able to escape from; whereupon he did not now make an open search, but sent about spies to watch such as he suspected, for he was now overrun with suspicion and hatred against all about him; and indulging abundance of those suspicions, in order to his preservation, he continued to suspect those that were guiltless; nor did he set any bounds to himself, but supposing that those who staid with him had the most power to hurt him, they were to him very frightful; and for those that did not use to come to him, it seemed enough to name them [to make them suspected], and he thought himself safer when they were destroyed.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Oh, Miss Oliver, I do hope some of the boys will ask me to dance.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

An' den he said we'd better go down in de woods an' hide.
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

And he drew his sword from the sheath and cut the hawsers at the stern.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

The elder was beholden to the younger for the acquiescence that removed the odium of tyranny from the expulsion, and when the one great disturbance had silenced the ephemeral dissensions that had kept both minds in a constant state of irritation, Henry wanted, by kindness and consideration, to prove to himself and the world that Leonard's real interests were his sole object; and Leonard rejoiced in being at peace, so long as his pride and resolution were not sacrificed.
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"The influence of my contemporaries wins the day," he said aloud, with a bitter laugh.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

Since the moment when the Delands rang up to cancel his engagement to dine he seemed to have stepped out of the old world into a new.
— from The Phantom Lover by Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred) Ayres

"Very soon now—in a few days." "How strange, oh, how strange!"
— from The Cottage of Delight: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Mr. MacLeay, on whose system I shall now say a few words, divides his sub-kingdom Annulosa into five classes, namely, Crustacea , Ametabola , Mandibulata , Haustellata , Arachnida .
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 3 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

"Here's your dinner," he said, laying the plate down, while he locked the door behind him.
— from Rufus and Rose; Or, The Fortunes of Rough and Ready by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

If he did, he saved Queen Anne a great deal of perplexity by permitting his royal prisoner to sail out of the Frith of Forth, where he encountered the French fleet, and return to France, for her majesty certainly would not have known what to do with him.
— from Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Vol. 2. (of 3) Abridged and Fully Illustrated by Agnes Strickland