[5796] If young, she is likely wanton and untaught; if lusty, too lascivious; and if she be not satisfied, you know where and when, nil nisi jurgia , all is in an uproar, and there is little quietness to be had; If an old maid, 'tis a hazard she dies in childbed; if a [5797] rich widow, induces te in laqueum , thou dost halter thyself, she will make all away beforehand, to her other children, &c.— [5798] dominam quis possit ferre tonantem ?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She ran away in terror with the dog hanging to the end of her arm, which he held between his teeth.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Annette, however, was not speechless.—She renewed her calls, but received no answer; and Emily, fearing, that a further attempt, which certainly was, as present, highly dangerous, might expose them to the guards of the castle, while it could not perhaps terminate her suspense, insisted on Annette's dropping the enquiry for this night; though she determined herself to question Ludovico, on the subject, in the morning, more urgently than she had yet done.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Thence, after walking a good while in the Long gallery, home to my Lord’s lodging, my Lord telling me how my father did desire him to speak to me about my giving of my sister something, which do vex me to see that he should trouble my Lord in it, but however it is a good occasion for me to tell my Lord my condition, and so I was glad of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She glows with anger and disdain, Dismounts with speed to dare him on the plain, And leaves her horse at large among her train; With her drawn sword defies him to the field, And, marching, lifts aloft her maiden shield.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Mr. Darcy handed the ladies into the carriage; and when it drove off, Elizabeth saw him walking slowly towards the house.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Round , “ ROUND dealing,” honest trading; “ ROUND sum,” a large sum.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

I do hope the police will catch some one soon.
— from The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

Some of the knights present, sometimes even ladies and damsels, handed to him in succession the spurs, the coat of mail, the hauberk, the armlet and gauntlet, and lastly he girded on the sword.
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

If I go a step beyond the bounds of honour, leave me; till then, I expect you should go along with me in every thing; while I trust my honour in your hands, you may trust your brother's in mine—The Count is to dine here to-day.
— from The Beaux-Stratagem: A comedy in five acts by George Farquhar

She told me, driving home, that she had never before been this side of the Adirondacks. 213
— from The Prairie Child by Arthur Stringer

It’s as if the world were a little wizened balloon that had been given us once and had been used so for thousands of years, and we had just lately discovered how to blow it.
— from The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee

Naturally nothing did happen, nothing ever does happen to children like the little Ernest, and Clémentine, dismayed by the loss of her lunch and the interference with her toilet, never ventured upon this argument a second time.
— from Our House and London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

Beside him was Elinor Wream, all dainty and sweet and white, from the broad-brimmed hat set jauntily on her dark hair to the white bows on the instep of her neat little canvas shoes.
— from A Master's Degree by Margaret Hill McCarter

In one interview, Ole Nattestad, who sailed in 1837 from Vægli, Numedal, and became the founder of the fourth Nor wegian settlement in America, that of Jefferson Prairie in Rock County, Wisconsin, and the neighboring Boone County in Illinois, describes his experience as a farmer in Numedal and how the difficulty of making any headway finally drove him to emigrate to America.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

I'm sure you wouldn't wish to hurt a sick woman, who never did harm to any mortal creature."
— from Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp by Harriet Beecher Stowe