Monsieur Valancourt!' while Emily endeavoured to check her, but she repeated the call more loudly than before, and the lute and the voice suddenly stopped.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

do you fear it, sir?' said Emily, endeavouring to conceal her emotion.—'Because,' replied the Count, 'I think him not worthy of your favour.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

'Was it the person, whom you followed down the rampart, that has occasioned you this alarm?' said Emily, endeavouring to conceal her own. 'Person!'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Por esto era buena y mala, por esto era religiosa y humilde o terrible 189 y osada, por esto era todo cuanto hay que ser, porque sin tal idea, María, que era la encarnación de su proyecto, no existiría.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

ti dê oun ouk euthys en ekeinois tois chôriois hyperrhei katô?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

'We have now little time to waste in exclamation, or assertion,' said Emily, endeavouring to conceal her emotion: 'if you are yet to learn how dear you are, and ever must be, to my heart, no assurances of mine can give you conviction.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

I seemed literally to be running a race with some confusion to which he was about to reduce me, but I felt that he had got in first when, before we had even entered the churchyard, he threw out— “I want my own sort!”
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

English is different in every respect from the rest of Europe; even the country has a different aspect, and the water of the Thames has a taste peculiar to itself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

There were no explanations, except that Costanza had had one glorious week of doing exactly as she chose, of splendid unbridled licence, and that this was the result.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Nelly's shipmaster, Mr. Snowdon, must have been struggling in the water for something like four hours, and was washed up, well-nigh at the very door of the young woman's cottage, and so—well, you know more of the remainder of the story than doth any living man—not even excepting the Captain himself.”
— from The Love That Prevailed by Frank Frankfort Moore

he was laid up three or four days, and had experienced enough to caution him against ever again attempting to capture a 'Portuguese man-of-war.'
— from The World of Waters Or, A Peaceful Progress o'er the Unpathed Sea by Osborne, David, Mrs. (Fanny)

Another young woman reported that on hearing of the death of a former school-mate she felt deeply grieved, yet “laughed as heartily as she had ever done in her life,” and, in spite of every effort to control herself, “had to break out into a laugh repeatedly.”
— from Psychology and parenthood by H. Addington (Henry Addington) Bruce

I could not be in the company of Ogle, Maniduc, Dawson, and so forth, but what I must needs make some preparation, and some ablution, ere entering the circle here.”
— from Peveril of the Peak by Walter Scott

Edward Hall, alias Oldcorne, (Note 4) was Mr Abington’s private chaplain; and though there is little evidence extant to connect him with the plot, the Government appear to have been extremely suspicious of him.
— from It Might Have Been: The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by Emily Sarah Holt

In fact, it was only an earnest exhortation to come here with Monroe, which I still hope you will do.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 4 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

These cursive leaves are preceded by Eusebius' Epistle to Carpianus, his table of canons, and a table of the κεφάλαια of St. Matthew.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. I. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

His awful presence did the crowd surprise, Nor durst the rash spectator meet his eyes; Eyes that confessed him born for kingly sway, So fierce, they flashed intolerable day.
— from The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in Eighteen Volumes, Volume 11 by John Dryden

But there were two particulars in which the Austrian prince fell far short of Napoleon,—first, in that ready, decided, and vigorous confidence, which seizes the favourable instant for the execution of plans resolved upon,—and, secondly, in having the disadvantage to be subjected, notwithstanding his high rank, to the interference of the Aulic Council; who, sitting at Vienna, and ignorant of the changes and vicissitudes of the campaign, were yet, by the ancient and jealous laws of the Austrian empire, entitled to control his opinion, and prescribe beforehand the motions of the armies, {148} while the generals, intrusted with the execution of their schemes, had often no choice left
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

As they went on, Mr. Weeks did the talking and Elmiry endeavoured to collect her scattered senses.
— from The White Shield by Myrtle Reed