Do understand me, at last.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Mr. Bucket, breaking off, has made a noiseless descent upon mademoiselle and laid his heavy hand upon her shoulder.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Farewell, Segnor; Remember, that tomorrow morning we meet for the last time.' Having said this, She darted upon me a look of pride, contempt, and malice, and quitted the apartment.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

[45-3] 05 de la puerta había una ventana de reja, [45-] con cristales, y delante una mesa a la cual nos sentamos algunos de los oficiales, entre ellos C...., que ha sido diputado a Cortes
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

U ua adv., still, yet; ua mai inao , from of old; e mae ua na , already dead; ua mai ana lua , from the time of the flood, ua inao , old, aforetime; ua go i uarodo , while still dark; e langi ua , not yet, still wanting.
— from Grammar and Vocabulary of the Lau Language, Solomon Islands by W. G. (Walter George) Ivens

She shipped a while back, and just come home all dolled up. Made a little money, no doubt, but any pinhead could do that, the way prices are.
— from The Fighting Shepherdess by Caroline Lockhart

“But mobs don’t do up men any longer in this part of the country.”
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

She dropped upon me after luncheon and was here for more than an hour."
— from The Golden Bowl — Volume 1 by Henry James

Meanwhile I continually reflected: "this terrible malicious trifler is plotting to lead me into some flour-bin, shut the door upon me, and leave me there till the morning: or to let me step in the darkness into some flue, where I shall fall up to my neck into the rising dough;—for of that everything is full."
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

Sudden anguish swept down upon Maria Angelina, like the cold mistral upon the southlands.
— from The Innocent Adventuress by Mary Hastings Bradley

The want of water distressed us much; at length we found a soldier's wife who had courage enough to fetch us some from the river, an office nobody else would undertake, as the Americans shot at every person who approached it; but, out of respect for her sex, they never molested her.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Say I'm a d——d unlucky man, and leave it there."
— from Swords Reluctant by Max Pemberton

“I know you are exceedingly kind, and you mean well, but perhaps Mr Durrant understands me a little better than you do.”
— from The Little School-Mothers by L. T. Meade

Even before I had gone to Princeton I had read and learned a great deal relative to Justinus Kerner, the great German supernaturalist, mystic, and poet, firstly from a series of articles in the Dublin University Magazine , and later from a translation of “The Seeress of Prevorst,” and several of the good man’s own romances and lyrics.
— from Memoirs by Charles Godfrey Leland