Count Ostermann-Tolstóy met the returning hussars, sent for Rostóv, thanked him, and said he would report his gallant deed to the Emperor and would recommend him for a St. George’s Cross.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

keep in the dark, leave in the dark, keep in the ignorance; blind, blind the eyes; blindfold, hoodwink, mystify; puzzle &c. (render uncertain) 475; bamboozle &c. (deceive) 545. be concealed &c. v.; suffer an eclipse; retire from sight, couch; hide oneself; lie hid, lie in perdu[Fr], lie in close; lie in ambush (ambush) 530; seclude oneself &c. 893; lurk, sneak, skulk, slink, prowl; steal into, steal out of, steal by, steal along; play at bopeep[obs3], play at hide and seek; hide in holes and corners; still hunt.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

He was a true friend, Henrietta more than once assured our heroine; and she had never supposed that she could like any Englishman so well.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

The scene was filled with that cheering freshness, which seems to breathe the very spirit of health, and she heard only sweet and PICTURESQUE sounds, if such an expression may be allowed—the matin-bell of a distant convent, the faint murmur of the sea-waves, the song of birds, and the far-off low of cattle, which she saw coming slowly on between the trunks of trees.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

In the evening my brother John coming to me to complain that my wife seems to be discontented at his being here, and shows him great disrespect; so I took and walked with him in the garden, and discoursed long with him about my affairs, and how imprudent it is for my father and mother and him to take exceptions without great cause at my wife, considering how much it concerns them to keep her their friend and for my peace; not that I would ever be led by her to forget or desert them in the main, but yet she deserves to be pleased and complied with a little, considering the manner of life that I keep her to, and how convenient it were for me to have Brampton for her to be sent to when I have a mind or occasion to go abroad to Portsmouth or elsewhere.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I staid to discourse with him, and so home to supper, where upon a fine couple of pigeons, a good supper; and here I met a pretty cabinet sent me by Mr. Shales, which I give my wife, the first of that sort of goods I ever had yet, and very conveniently it comes for her closett.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"Poor Marianne!" said her brother to Colonel Brandon, in a low voice, as soon as he could secure his attention,— "She has not such good health as her sister,—she is very nervous,—she has not Elinor's constitution;—and one must allow that there is something very trying to a young woman who HAS BEEN a beauty in the loss of her personal attractions.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Some instinct taught Washington that his present lack of money would be an obstruction, though possibly not a bar, to his hopes, and straightway his poverty became a torture to him which cast all his former sufferings under that held into the shade.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

she came up to me, took my hand, and shook her head at me, but so sternly as though she were blaming me.... Is that a good omen?
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I could have caught her and saved her if my legs would only have moved.
— from Careers of Danger and Daring by Cleveland Moffett

In the seclusion of the Lindens she supported Darwin, laughed at Mivart, doubted Haeckel, and shook her head at Weissman, with a familiarity which made her the admiration of the University professors and the terror of the few students who ventured to cross her learned but hospitable threshold.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 03, March 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

I stood in the hall and saw him move by outside the window of your room.
— from True Tales of the Weird: a record of personal experiences of the supernatural by Sidney Dickinson

he cried out sharply, and a mighty wave of pitying love surged over him and sent him toward her with outstretched arms.
— from The Tobacco Tiller: A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Sarah Bell Hackley

So when he struck the ground he just gave one little kick with his hind foot and a kind of a sigh, as if he was drawing his last breath, and laid there: and even when Mr. Dog grabbed him and shook him he never let on, but acted almost deader than if he had been really dead and no mistake.
— from The Hollow Tree Snowed-in Book being a continuation of the stories about the Hollow Tree and Deep Woods people by Albert Bigelow Paine

Greatly offended, the old lady turned on her heel, and seated herself in a corner, whilst the father and mother, at last freed from their anxiety, returned thanks to the Blessed Virgin for having preserved their darling, who smiled at them with his intelligent and infinitely sorrowful smile, knowing and understanding everything as he did, and no longer having any taste for life, although he was not fifteen.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 3 by Émile Zola

Not more than a month passed, when Gabrielle had another sick head-ache.
— from The Home at Greylock by E. (Elizabeth) Prentiss

He thought also that though he should have liked a son, he was very glad that he and Sylvia had not owned a daughter.
— from The Shoulders of Atlas: A Novel by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

For he not only works hard and suffers humiliation in getting his place in society, but after he is in he works just as hard, and with bitterness in his heart, to keep out other parvenues like himself.
— from Their Pilgrimage by Charles Dudley Warner

When she had done, she drank, and afterwards took up one of the other cups, and presented it to the prince, praying him to drink for love of her, as she had drunk for love of him.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous