Mrs. Barrett was a grave, judicious woman, though she knew little more of the world than myself; but grave and judicious as she was, she did not charge me with being out of my senses; and, indeed, I had a staid manner of my own which ere now had been as good to me as cloak and hood of hodden grey, since under its favour I had been enabled to achieve with impunity, and even approbation, deeds that, if attempted with an excited and unsettled air, would in some minds have stamped me as a dreamer and zealot.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The strange man, after glancing at Joe, and seeing that his attention was otherwise engaged, nodded to me again when I had taken my seat, and then rubbed his leg—in a very odd way, as it struck me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Enjolras glanced at Javert, and said to him:— “Your friends have just shot you.” H2 anchor CHAPTER VI—THE AGONY OF DEATH AFTER THE AGONY OF LIFE A peculiarity of this species of war is, that the attack of the barricades is almost always made from the front, and that the assailants generally abstain from turning the position, either because they fear ambushes, or because they are afraid of getting entangled in the tortuous streets.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

It was not a very comfortable place, not at all easy to get at, just a sort of crevice high up along the steep bank, but it was well veiled with foliage and dry.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mrs. March glanced at Jo as she spoke, but the face opposite seemed quite unconscious of any secret disquietude but Beth's; and, after sewing thoughtfully for a minute, Jo said,— "I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why, or being able to explain them.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

replies a pampered goose: And just as short of reason he must fall, Who thinks all made for one, not one for all.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

Her silent wonder burst into passionate exclamations of gratitude and joy, and she named Theodora her queen, her benefactress, and her savior.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Shirley wouldn't bother them, father and mother were going to the Manse, Miss Oliver never played gooseberry, and Jims always slept the clock round from seven to seven.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

At breakfast I announced to Diana and Mary that I was going a journey, and should be absent at least four days.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

For this reason, when Caesar had returned from Egypt, he added to Herod's other honors, and also made an addition to his kingdom by giving him not only the country which had been taken from him by Cleopatra, but also Gadara, Hippos, and Samaria, and also the coast cities Gaza, Anthedon, Joppa, and Straton's Tower.
— from The Makers and Teachers of Judaism From the Fall of Jerusalem to the Death of Herod the Great by Charles Foster Kent

A lady airing a Pom whisked her treasure into the house as Simon passed, and shut the door with a bang; such a bang that the knocker gave a jump and Simon a hint.
— from The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon) by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

The alforjas , or saddle-bags, of the guide were strengthened by a stock of cold provisions, the leathern bota hanging beside it was filled with ripe Granada wine; and now behold me ambling over the Vega, accoutred in a gay Andalusian jacket, a sash woven by Mateo Ximenes, and one of those bandboxy sombreros, which I at first thought so ungainly, but now consider quite picturesque and elegant.
— from The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain by Bayard Taylor

Throughout Galilee, and Judæa, and some of the neighboring provinces, he has already gone, preaching the kingdom of heaven and calling the people to repentance.
— from Old Wine and New: Occasional Discourses by Joseph Cross

Then she desired her husband more and more, assuring him that shee should die, unlesse he would grant that she might see her sisters, wherby she might speak with them and comfort them, wherat at length he was contented, and moreover hee willed that shee should give them as much gold and jewels as she would.
— from The Golden Asse by Apuleius

You came with—Monsieur——" She cast a glance at Jock as she spoke, with a smile in her eyes that was not without its effect.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The champagne at a guinea a jug, a speciality of the Upas, had seemed excellent to Patrine.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

I'm going to get a job as saleslady for some kind of household novelty, house-to-house canvass."
— from Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman by Emma Speed Sampson