[a12] consider an unpleasant experience sweet (literary).
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The party whose coming has thus briefly been related was composed of Halvor Haugen, wife, three sons, Peder, Halvor and Andreas, and two daughters Bergit and Sigrid; Halvor Stordok, Lars Haugerud, Gunder Fingalpladsen, Engebret Sæter, Lars Dalen, Gjermund Johnson, and Sven Tufte, all of whom also had families, besides some single persons.
— 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

He would resent an affront to himself, or interpose to redress a wrong offered to another, as boldly and freely as any knight that ever set lance in rest; but he lacked that peculiar excess of coolness and great-minded selfishness, which invariably distinguish gentlemen of high spirit.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

The exclamation “Hugh!” delivered in a strong tone of assent, announced the gratification the savage would receive in witnessing such an exhibition of weakness in an enemy so long hated and so much feared.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

I am really tired of exploring so long on one spot.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

She sat motionless, still staring at the fern, but when Zebedee entered she looked up at him and spoke.
— from Moor Fires by E. H. (Emily Hilda) Young

Nays. —Daniel Blaisdell, John C. Chamberlain, S. W. Dana, John Davenport, jr., William Ely, William Hale, Nathaniel A. Haven, James Holland, Jonathan H. Hubbard, Edward St. Loe Livermore, Nathaniel Macon, Timothy Pitkin, jr., John Ross, Richard Stanford, and John Taylor.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Entering, she learned from a verger that he was already robing.
— from Hetty Wesley by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Nevertheless, whosoever compares their works with those before them will see in them an improvement in every respect, although he will also see some things that give no little displeasure to our own times; as, for example, some little temples of brick, wrought over with stucco, at S. Giovanni Laterano in Rome.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 02 (of 10) Berna to Michelozzo Michelozzi by Giorgio Vasari

Ef'n de briars wouldn't come out'n it soon ez she laid her han' on 'em, Ole Miss she turnt up her nose en thowed de wool on ter de niggers' pile.
— from The Voice of the People by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Then she must have put something on and sat down; for the chair creaked ever so little; and it became so still—as silent as though the room were empty.
— from The Dark by Leonid Andreyev