It lets you feel if the other guy is shifting his weight, getting ready to move.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

Three guards instantly seized him.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

non erigetur virga sex diebus; utere mentha sicca cum aceto, genitalia illinita succo hyoscyami aid cicutae, coitus appelitum sedant, &c. ℞.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Amory gasped in sudden horror.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I know his nature, and if he once gets into that fearfully low state that he does get into sometimes, he'll never do the honourable thing by me in this world, and I shall be left in the lurch.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

my dear Glaucon, I said, how energetically you polish them up for the decision, first one and then the other, as if they were two statues.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

I am sure, if I had seen a ghost, I should have looked in the very same manner, and done just as he did.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Had it not been for the powerful arms of Hans, the guide, I should have broken my head against the granite masses of the shaft.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

“If I'd guessed, I should have stayed,” cried Ivan.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

By his examination it appears that, on the Duke’s going into Spain, he had desired this young man to retire to France, and he did so; but on Buckingham’s return, he could not obtain leave to come back to England, and had therefore left France without it.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 2 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

“I would have gone just one foot deeper before I gave in,” said he; he called George.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

Then I shall stir up the gov’nor and Maude, and if none of these things do any good I shall have a go at Wilters.”
— from Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn

We voyaged for some miles between banks fringed with willows, the original cuttings of which had been brought by an old French settler from Napoleon's grave in St. Helena.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

"My goodness, I should have liked to have seen him in the water.
— from Love Among the Chickens by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

“Well, I guess I shall have to, from the stew you two girls have sizzled into,” replied Blue Robin laughingly.
— from The Liberty Girl by Rena I. Halsey

“It’ll take them near an hour to get in,” said he.
— from Vanderdecken by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

“I fear that he has again gone into safe hiding—up in the mountains somewhere, without a doubt,” he replied.
— from The Stretton Street Affair by William Le Queux

The shepherd bowed and continued: "A moment after the Princess was gone, I saw his Majesty, disguised as a peasant and mounted on a donkey.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 05, May 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various