The Count inquired if Mrs. Clements had sent for medical advice, and hearing that she had hitherto hesitated to do so, from the fear of making their position publicly known in the village, informed her that he was himself a medical man, and that he would go back with her if she pleased, and see what could be done for Anne.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

When the meal was over it was Mrs. Ellen Vail Montgomery, in her thousand-dollar gown, worshipped by the eyes of forty-eight women, who put her arm about Priscilla Winthrop and led her into the conservatory, where they had "a dear, sweet quarter of an hour," as Mrs. Montgomery afterward told her hostess.
— from In Our Town by William Allen White

Her affection concentrated on two objects, the house and Maggie, Maggie and the house.
— from Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair

Jane had a mind more active than her father, and more brilliant than her mother; and if she had not imbibed injurious impressions from the unlicensed and indiscriminate reading she practised, it was more owing to the fortunate circumstance, that the baronet's library contained nothing extremely offensive to a pure taste, nor dangerous to good morals, than to any precaution of her parents against the deadly, the irretrievable injury to be sustained from ungoverned liberty in this respect to a female mind.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

The day before it happened, we rested our horses and "made medicine" as to how we should get about it.
— from Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry

Pierrette had her grandmother to nurse her; and Monsieur Martener and the head-surgeon of the hospital attended her.
— from Pierrette by Honoré de Balzac

Either the consciousness that his tyranny and crimes had become intolerable, or one of those strange presentiments of coming fate which have affected many men as the hour of their destiny drew nigh, rendered Galeazzo less accessible, more suspicious and retired than before.
— from Leonora D'Orco: A Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

One was young, a mere boy in years; but a certain habit of command, with the responsibility accompanying, had given him a more manly appearance than his age warranted.
— from For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Miss Graham was kind enough to allow me to travel to Washington with her after meeting me at the home of a mutual friend.
— from The Camp Fire Girls on the Field of Honor by Margaret Vandercook