Franz waited until all was in order, and when the sail was filled, and the four sailors had taken their places—three forward, and one at the helm—he resumed the conversation.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of her pain.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

For several hours I lay there broad awake, feeling a great deal worse than I have ever done since, even from the greatest subsequent misfortunes.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

And, at last, Mr. Pickwick, fairly argued and remonstrated out of all his resolutions, and being in imminent danger of being argued and remonstrated out of his wits, caught Arabella in his arms, and declaring that she was a very amiable creature, and that he didn’t know how it was, but he had always been very fond of her from the first, said he could never find it in his heart to stand in the way of young people’s happiness, and they might do with him as they pleased.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

He remembered what he had said about fighting boys, and, besides, he felt safe halfway up the bank.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

He looked surprised, displeased, alarmed; but with a moment's recollection and a returning smile, replied, that he had formerly seen him often; and after observing that he was a very gentleman-like man, asked her how she had liked him.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Its inconsistencies, contradictions, and falsehood struck her from the very first.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

She wrote to inform her brother of the probable conclusion of a four-months’ indisposition under which she had suffered, and entreated him to come to her, if possible; for she had much to settle, and she wished to bid him adieu, and deliver Linton safely into his hands.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The bow to a friend is made with a smile, to a very intimate friend often with a broad grin that fits exactly with the word "Hello"; whereas the formal bow is mentally accompanied by the formal salutation: "How do you do!"
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

sorry dat he lick Frawce so hard, and dey's [Pg 17] bose sorry.
— from Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson

To the left of the cove the land rose, forming small hills, behind which appeared the continuation of the cocoa-nut groves.
— from Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat

For we are not now discoursing of what rewards God can give to the operations of his own grace in us, but whether he can in a way of justice, or how he will, bestow any spiritual blessings upon sinful creatures, against whom, for sin, he has pronounced the curse of the law, before he hath found them in a righteousness, that is proved to be as good justice and righteousness, as is the justice and righteousness of the law, with which we have to do.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Firth swung himself down, and then, showing Hugh where to plant his feet, and propping him when he wanted it, he soon seated him on the fork, and laughed good-naturedly when Hugh waved his cap over his head, on occasion of being up in a tree.
— from The Crofton Boys by Harriet Martineau

When one finds himself avoided in society, his friends shunning his approach, his substance wasting, his wife and children in want around him, and traces all his misfortunes and misery to the slanderous tongue of the calumniator, who, by secret whisper or artful innuendo, has sapped and undermined his reputation, he must be more or less than man to submit in silence.
— from The Code of Honor Or, Rules for the Government of Principals and Seconds in Duelling by John Lyde Wilson

Also, when his conscience reproached him, as it did, with making conditions, with asking the dear woman for security, he was able to persuade himself that he didn't really mean it, that all this was clever camouflage designed to turn Barbara's suspicions, if she ever had any, off the scent.
— from Mr. Waddington of Wyck by May Sinclair

The Servian Constitution The first step, however, towards the amalgamation of the two portions of the people scarcely took place in the revolutionary way which their antagonism appeared to foreshadow.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

That his measures worked mischievously not merely for Greece, but for Sparta herself, aggravating all her bad tendencies,—has been already remarked in the preceding pages.
— from History of Greece, Volume 09 (of 12) by George Grote

As they walked slowly along Jack kept frequently snapping his light on and off so that they could take an instantaneous inventory of what lay just beyond their feet for the night 195 proved exceedingly dark although all that would be changed after a while, when the late moon climbed into sight.
— from Eagles of the Sky; Or, With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes by Ambrose Newcomb