Eugene says this with a sound of vexation in his voice, leaning back in his chair and looking balefully at Lady Tippins, who nods to him as her dear Bear, and playfully insinuates that she (a self-evident proposition) is Beauty, and he Beast.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The venerable parent still maintained the legal and acknowledged supremacy, which was due to her age, her dignity, and to the remembrance of her former greatness.
— 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

And presently he added:— He drove the olive off (μαστίξεν δ’ ἐλάαν).
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

“When my dearest aunt died, every one was too much occupied in their own grief to notice poor Justine, who had attended her during her illness with the most anxious affection.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

15. I suppose that a noise on the street waked him, and he did not wish to remain in his bed.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

He did not spend long in hesitation about his dangerous position, and he said to my sister Anyutka: “Things don’t look very bright, they really are in pursuit.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then when they had sat down, he admired her dressing-gown.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"I knowed you was a Greaser," yelled he as he danced around me, [Pg 113] "
— from An American Hobo in Europe A True Narrative of the Adventures of a Poor American at Home and in the Old Country by Ben Goodkind

We have just seen what a wealth of romances Maître Edmond has at his disposal.
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis

Granting that these pygmies crawling along the beaches are human cooties and those working in the hotels are human drudges, what then?
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

I remonstrated with him about having done so, but he excused himself, and I determined to remain stationary at this point for a day or two to give him plenty of rest before we again started on our cruise along the coast.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

The mother sat at the side, apparently looking on that position as one of vantage for commanding the whole field, and keeping her husband and her daughter both under her eye.
— from In the Midst of Alarms by Robert Barr

Interest in the Æsthetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, “Patience,” [1] in which he and his disciples were held up to ridicule, determined him to pay a visit to the States to give some lectures explaining what he meant by Æstheticism, hoping thereby to interest, and possibly to instruct and elevate our transatlantic cousins.
— from Impressions of America by Oscar Wilde

Oddly enough, Joan was presently restored to her husband and her duty through the medium of no less a person than Eduard Desmond.
— from Why Joan? by Eleanor Mercein Kelly

[Footnote 1: "There he found, at the foot of a great walnut-tree, a fountain of a very clear running water, and alighting, tied his horse to a branch of a tree, and sitting clown by the fountain, took some biscuits and dates out of his portmanteau, and, as he ate his dates, threw the shells about on both sides of him.
— from Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge