For a full fortnight every door and window was left open for ventilation, ere M. Moysant could begin his work of selection.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

She was breathing fast, and fighting for each deep breath.
— from Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by John Trevena

They met as long friends, and with that air of gracious compliment and pleasure in each other's company which the fact of one being a beautiful woman and the other a man of famous gallantry had always given to their intercourse; if every jot of my lady's being had not been absorbed in her husband she might have been in love with Mr. Sidney, and if Mr. Sidney had not followed a fresh face every day of the year he might have found leisure to fall in love with my lady; as it was, he was very constant to her friendship, but had not, for that, forgotten the lovely creature she was, and she knew it and was pleased; in their hearts each laughed a little at the other and the situation; but my lady had the more cause to laugh, because while Mr. Sidney always dealt ingenuously with her, she was all the while using him to further her husband's policies, and there was not a pleasant word she gave him that was not paid for in information that she turned to good account.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

In the same connection he wrote to Sir W. Farquhar, a friend from earliest days:— Jan. 31, 1865.
— from The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 2 (of 3) 1859-1880 by John Morley

None but those of perfect form, complete in all their organization and functions, and free from every defect or disease, are intended to be admitted.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 60, October, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Colour, flaring and fierce in the sun, flaunts everywhere; for the multi-tinted rags of the south festoon and flutter from every door and window and deck the persons of all the womankind.
— from Through Portugal by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume

It finds a facility for every duty, for speaking and for acting, no longer in its own way, but in God's.
— from Spiritual Torrents by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon