Never quite free from an uneasy remembrance of the man on the stairs, I had always looked about me in taking my guest out after dark, and in bringing him back; and I looked about me now.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Beside him glided Caderousse, whose desire to partake of the good things provided for the wedding party had induced him to become reconciled to the Dantès, father and son, although there still lingered in his mind a faint and unperfect recollection of the events of the preceding night; just as the brain retains on waking in the morning the dim and misty outline of a dream.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

On a lovely afternoon towards the middle of May, when city men begin to thirst for a draught of fresh air, and to long for an undignified roll on the green fields among primroses, butter-cups, and daisies, Mr Sudberry sat at his desk reading the advertisements in the Times .
— from Freaks on the Fells: Three Months' Rustication by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

The Prologue of 1649, however, written by D'Avenant for an undated revival of the play and addressed to the Ladies, definitely ascribes the authorship to one "poet," who "to the stars your sex did raise; for which, full twenty years he wore the bays.
— from Francis Beaumont: Dramatist A Portrait, with Some Account of His Circle, Elizabethan and Jacobean, And of His Association with John Fletcher by Charles Mills Gayley

He went as directly as he could to the part of the train in which was the carriage he had occupied, and found it without much difficulty when he was near enough to make out forms through the fog; the door of Mabel's compartment was open, and, as he sprang up the footboard, he heard the train behind rattling down on him with its whistle screeching infernally, and for the first time felt an uneasy recollection of the horribly fantastic injuries described in accounts of so many railway collisions.
— from The Giant's Robe by F. Anstey

" On the 14th of the same month, the bill still pending before the Senate, he repeats: "I will now say, that I feel entirely authorized to assure you, that if you can at any time produce a full and unconditional repeal of the French decrees, as you have a right to demand it in your character of a neutral nation, and that it be disengaged from any question concerning our maritime rights, we shall be ready to meet you with a revocation of the Orders in Council.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 4 (of 16) by United States. Congress

For the Chief Justice very readily agreed that the Standard Oil Company was, in fact, an unreasonable restraint of trade, and must be dissolved,
— from The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams

In the male mammal the epididymis develops from the uppermost part of the primitive kidney; in the female a useless rudimentary organ, the epovarium, is formed from the same part.
— from The Evolution of Man by Ernst Haeckel

Thus months flew on in this dashing sort of warfare, and no impression was made on the fortress, nor did any appear [41] practicable; and every one at court began to calculate on the failure and utter ruin of the Douglas.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg

Captain Greene proceeded to say that he knew the men thoroughly, and had the most firm and undoubted reliance on their fidelity.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

Slowly on hand and knees he approached, from behind, the strangely inert creature; when a few [Pg 102] paces off he bounded to his feet, tore forward, and utterly regardless of the monumental power before him, and its amazing superiority in strength, rushed upon its side nearest the dirt wall.
— from A Woman of the Ice Age by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

In Africa—the Dark Continent—the author follows in exciting detail his young heroes, their voyage in the first aeroplane to fly above the mysterious forests and unexplored ranges of the mystic land.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner by John Henry Goldfrap