Very graceful was the lady's mien, choice her appointments, delicate and stately her whole aspect.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Now, as in a deserted house, All dark and silent hath become;
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

He comforted her; he instilled into her his own hopes and desires; and soon her countenance beamed with sympathy.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It is an herb of Venus, and therefore cures the diseases she causes by sympathy, and those of Mars by antipathy; you may usually find it all the year long except the year be extremely frosty; it is quick, sharp, and bitter in taste, and is thereby found to be hot and dry; a singular herb for all inward wounds, exulcerated lungs, or other parts, either by itself, or boiled with other the like herbs; and being drank, in a short time it eases all griping pains, windy and choleric humours in the stomach, spleen or belly; helps the yellow jaundice, by opening the stoppings of the gall and liver, and melancholy, by opening the stoppings of the spleen; expels venom or poison, and also the plague; it provokes urine and women’s courses; the decoction of it in wine drank for some time together, procures ease to them that are troubled with the sciatica, or hip-gout: as also the gout in hands, knees or feet; if you put to the decoction some honey and a little burnt alum, it is excellently good to gargle any sore mouth or throat, and to wash the sores and ulcers in the privy parts of man or woman; it speedily helps green wounds, being bruised and bound thereto.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Meantime the queen, without reflection due, Heart-wounded, to the bed of state withdrew: In her sad breast the prince's fortunes roll, And hope and doubt alternate seize her soul.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

“In such affairs, Alexey Fyodorovitch, in such affairs, the chief thing is honor and duty and something higher—I don't know what—but higher perhaps even than duty.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

All the night in his arms, darkness and shine, he possessed of it all!
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

We shall be here all day," and so he continued to the best of his ability, and he was a good pleader.
— from Reminiscences of a Prisoner of War and His Escape by Daniel Avery Langworthy

A fat ober-leutnant, backed up by half a dozen armed seamen, held the bridge, the Japanese captain and deck officers being compelled to retire to the chart-room.
— from Rounding up the Raider: A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

You have a daughter, and so have I. How old is yours?"
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock

They spent Sunday in Tallahassee, and on Monday started for home before daylight, on horseback and driving a small herd of cattle, which, with two horses, Mr. Elmer had bought on Saturday.
— from Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida by Kirk Munroe

He is very ‘great’ on dogs (and, indeed, on all other {14} animals); his opinion is listened to and taken by everybody round about who has a dog, and sometimes he has three or four under treatment for divers ills.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of natural history and rural life (Illustrated) by Richard Jefferies

And so while the brute is gambling, swindling, disgracing himself, and dodging a shot here and a lynch committee there, two or three hundred miles away, you're splurging round in first-class hotels and watering-places, doing the injured and abused, and run after by a lot of men who are ready to take my place, and, maybe, some of my reputation along with it.”
— from The Three Partners by Bret Harte

'She has a daughter, and so have most of the London hostesses, and the young villains know it.'
— from The Convert by Elizabeth Robins

But grandad said, by the way, that it was just as well he should see our strength, and that we had a dozen armed sailors here, in addition to so many natives.
— from The Wheel O' Fortune by Louis Tracy

T here was once a man, whose wife was dead, and a woman, whose husband was dead; and the man had a daughter, and so had the woman.
— from Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm