She leaned on my shoulder, growing every moment more languid and feeble; at first she replied to my words of cheer with affectionate thanks; but by degrees she sunk into silence; her head lay heavily upon me; I only knew that she lived by her irregular breathing and frequent sighs.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

CHAPTER IX—THE BALL ‘Now, Miss Grey,’ exclaimed Miss Murray, immediately I entered the schoolroom, after having taken off my outdoor garments, upon returning from my four weeks’ recreation, ‘Now—shut the door, and sit down, and I’ll tell you all about the ball.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

As he was on the point of turning the corner of the Rue Plumet, he heard some one quite close to him say:— “Good evening, Monsieur Marius.” He raised his head and recognized Éponine.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

So to me and my Lesbians round me gathered, Each made mine, an amphor of love long tasted, Bid us drink, who sigh for thy thrill ecstatic, Passion's full goblet; Grant me this, O Kypris, and on thy altar Dawn will see a goat of the breed of Naxos, Snowy doves from Cos and the drip of rarest Lesbian vintage;
— from The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English by Sappho

“Good evening, Mr. Marius,” said she suddenly and abruptly; and away she went.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Fools, common men, even common mathematicians, do not know anything of what some general expression may mean to the student of molecular physics.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Had their party been perfectly agreeable, the delay would have been nothing; but General Tilney, though so charming a man, seemed always a check upon his children's spirits, and scarcely anything was said but by himself; the observation of which, with his discontent at whatever the inn afforded, and his angry impatience at the waiters, made Catherine grow every moment more in awe of him, and appeared to lengthen the two hours into four.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Among these may be described the G. E. M. machine; the Ansco machine; the Eastman apron machine; the Brock frame and tank apparatus; the Eastman reel machine; and a modification of the latter by the United States Air Service.
— from Airplane Photography by Herbert Eugene Ives

"You've got good ears, my man," began the first officer.
— from A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London

Lothario was not so dull but that from the first moment when Camilla directed him to make Anselmo hide himself he understood what she intended to do, and therefore he fell in with her idea so readily and promptly that between them they made the imposture look more true than truth; so he answered her thus: "I did not think, fair Camilla, that thou wert calling me to ask questions so remote from the object with which I come; but if it is to defer the promised reward thou art doing so, thou mightst have put it off still longer, for the longing for happiness gives the more distress the nearer comes the hope of gaining it; but lest thou shouldst say that I do not answer thy questions, I say that I know thy husband Anselmo, and that we have known each other from our earliest years; I will not speak of what thou too knowest, of our friendship, that I may not compel myself to testify against the wrong that love, the mighty excuse for greater errors, makes me inflict upon him.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Part 13 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In vain did Jael assure him that Coventry was in a worse position than himself, and try to make him see that any rash act of his would make Grace even more miserable than
— from Put Yourself in His Place by Charles Reade

"Good evening, Miss Mercer
— from The Camp Fire Girls at the Seashore; Or, Bessie King's Happiness by Jane L. Stewart

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— from History of Ancient Pottery: Greek, Etruscan, and Roman. Volume 1 (of 2) by H. B. (Henry Beauchamp) Walters

Uncle Solomon was a grave, elderly man, mild and forgiving in his temper, and greatly esteemed among the more serious portion of our hands.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

But had they only known—straight out through the dense black cover of the spruce bush even now lurked and waited the great tawny cat, peering, peering, with its glowering eyes, right into the shack, simply biding its time, apparently, but growing every minute more desperately hungry and impatient to make an attack.
— from The Three Bears of Porcupine Ridge by Jean M. (Jean May) Thompson

— Vertigo , Turbo , and P. a. and ringens .—Scarborough, Newcastle, Guernsey, etc., Mr. More cylindrical than 5. 0 9.
— from Illustrated Index of British Shells Containing figures of all the recent species by G. B. (George Brettingham) Sowerby