She remembered the momentary feeling of reliance that had sprung in her when he was talking with her, and she waited with yearning expectation for the opportunity of confiding everything to him.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Moreover, Homais, with his head fuller of recipes than his shop of jars, excelled in making all kinds of preserves, vinegars, and sweet liqueurs; he knew also all the latest inventions in economic stoves, together with the art of preserving cheese and of curing sick wines.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

And the feeling in the kindred countries will be warmer and fuller of respect; they have seen the Old Country on her trial, have seen that she did not fail of what the world expected from her; seen that she had stuff in her beyond their hopes—for a new country is ever inclined to impatience, even to a certain contempt, for an old country.
— from A Sheaf by John Galsworthy

It was with a feeling of relief that he sank back upon the bed, and with listless eyes watched the movements of his hostess.
— from Frank Hunter's Peril by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

I had a queer feeling of regret that he should be dead—having wanted his life these many months and now possessing it.
— from Dross by Henry Seton Merriman

He stretched the fur on poles and left it to dry in the moonlight; the carcass he dragged to the end of the rick and buried it there; then he made a fire of rushes, took his seven days' old bread and rancid bacon from his greasy wallet and ate.
— from Debts of Honor by Mór Jókai

"Cos has a large force of regular troops," he said, "but he is alarmed.
— from The Texan Star: The Story of a Great Fight for Liberty by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

But after having in vain tried to procure a lodging suitable to the low state of her finances, or rather to her saving plan, she hired a little cottage on the heath above the town, adjoining to that where she had been so hospitably received in the hour of her distress; and having gladdened the hearts of the friendly cottager and his wife by telling them that she was coming to be their neighbour, she went to break the unwelcome tidings to Fanny.
— from The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose by Amelia Opie

we remarked upon the spectrum, and made a few observations respecting the heat spectrum, and the velocity of light rays, which became too rapid to be observed, and then they developed heat— invisible heat —produced by non-luminous waves, which proceed from the sun as surely as visible rays or light.
— from Popular Scientific Recreations in Natural Philosphy, Astronomy, Geology, Chemistry, etc., etc., etc. by Gaston Tissandier

"My son," said Father Antonio, as they raised their heads after the evening prayer, "I am at this time like a man who, having long been away from his home, fears, on returning, that he shall hear some evil tidings of those he hath left.
— from Agnes of Sorrento by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Rebb, for obvious reasons, told her so.
— from The Sealed Message by Fergus Hume