he cried suddenly, struggling up to a sitting posture and pointing to me, “It was worth for this to die!
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

He subdued it as before, and it was gone in an instant; but it had been there and it had come so swiftly upon my words that I felt as if they had given him a shock.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so suddenly upon us.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The king, seeing that Amleth had rightly given the causes of the taste he had found so faulty, and learning that the ignoble eyes wherewith Amleth had reproached him concerned some stain upon his birth, had a secret interview with his mother, and asked her who his father had really been.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

The country policeman was unnerved and troubled by the tremendous responsibility which had come so suddenly upon him.
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

How could she stand up and ask people for money when she herself was spending so much on her own selfish pleasure?
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

Now the bolt had fallen; Pride was shattered into fragments, Self-abasement was his companion, Shame sat upon his prostrate soul.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

‘Hah!’ cried Sikes starting up.
— from Cruikshank's Water Colours by William Harrison Ainsworth

First, then, I would request my reader to think how comparatively seldom Shakspere uses poetry in his plays.
— from A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare by George MacDonald

"How can she swim up when there isn't any water 'cept away down there in the bottom of the well?"
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope

"Oh, madam, you oughtn't to have come here," cried Sophy, starting up in a fright.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

When the soldiers who remained in charge found that it was the Bannu Daktar Sahib who had come so suddenly upon them, they were all attention.
— from Among the Wild Tribes of the Afghan Frontier A Record of Sixteen Years' Close Intercourse with the Natives of the Indian Marches by T. L. (Theodore Leighton) Pennell