Mrs. Jewkes had the portmanteau brought into my closet, and she shewed me what was in it; but then locked it up, and said, she would let me have what I would out of it, when I asked; but if I had the key, it might make me want to go abroad, may be; and so the confident woman put it in her pocket.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Mary Jane glanced at Gabriel and Mr Browne and said with a shiver: “It makes me feel cold to look at you two gentlemen muffled up like that.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

When she came in she found me on the stairs and told me to go about my business, as she had nothing to say to me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And Mrs. Viney was sent to the village to get as much brandy and soda-water and beef tea as she could buy for a shilling.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

It has been so long empty that some kind of absurd prejudice has grown up about it, and this can be best put down by its occupation—if only,' he added with a sly glance at Malcolmson, 'by a scholar like yourself, who wants its quiet for a time.'
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

For instance, there were many curious portraits of members of the House of Hanover; a sketch, by Titian, of the Emperor Charles V of Germany; a fine portrait of Frederick the Great; and many busts and statues of the Empress’s relatives, including a beautiful marble bust of her son, little Prince Waldemar.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

Gloom and melancholy breathed a sad spirit over the town and adjacent country.
— from The Dead Boxer The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

THE EVERLASTING RULE Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below and saints above, For love is Heaven and Heaven is love.
— from The Trampling of the Lilies by Rafael Sabatini

There is a haunted castle, a jocose monk, a fool, a marvelous dungeon, a fisherman's hut, a ghost, a midnight bell, and songs and elaborate scenery.
— from Tragedy by Ashley Horace Thorndike

And, in fact, they pass their time in preaching, not the eternal mysteries, but a twopenny morality, in changing the Wine of Angels and the Bread of Heaven into gingerbeer and mixed biscuits: a sorry transubstantiation, a sad alchemy, as it seems to me.
— from The Angels of Mons: The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War by Arthur Machen

I do fervently hope the Greek article may be a success; but nothing that it could do, nor anything that I might yet write, could in any way repay what I am well content should be my great debt to your sterling affection for me,—never to be acquitted—never forgotten.”
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

Your next general argument might be a statement of the value of honoring in every way possible the great men of the nation, and of not allowing them to be forgotten.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter

Injustice may be methodized and established by law, but still it will be injustice, as much as it was before; though its being so established may render men more insensible of the guilt, and more bold and secure in the perpetration of it.
— from Some Historical Account of Guinea, Its Situation, Produce, and the General Disposition of Its Inhabitants An Inquiry into the Rise and Progress of the Slave Trade, Its Nature and Lamentable Effects by Anthony Benezet

He wanted sevenpence in all,—that is, a penny to get across Montrose bridge, and sixpence to cross the Tay at Dundee.
— from Life of a Scotch Naturalist: Thomas Edward, Associate of the Linnean Society. Fourth Edition by Samuel Smiles