I don't see how even Flavia can endure to have that man about.”
— from The Troll Garden, and Selected Stories by Willa Cather

Being profound, steadfast, and most loyal in his feelings, he was incapable of suspecting that his elected friend could entertain sentiments towards him less deep, less earnest, and less faithful.
— from Tancred; Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Now, according to the files that we have, except for Commission Exhibit No. 916, which is the telegram asking where the dispatch was, we have no other communication during this period from the Department to the Embassy giving you advice on what to do in the Oswald case.
— from Warren Commission (05 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Even Deleah, the reader of the family, neglected her book to lie back in her chair and gaze into the fire, the music of galop, and rattle of her father's tambourine humming in her ears; before her eyes figures chasing each other over the blue sheet of ice or flying rhythmically over polished boards.
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

A vague uneasiness came and went—jarred unpleasantly across the flow of his excited feelings, chilling exhilaration.
— from Four Weird Tales by Algernon Blackwood

He stood with his hands empty, feeling curiously empty inside, oddly missing the white rage and love of murder that usually carried him through such things.
— from The Man Who Staked the Stars by Katherine MacLean

He extracts from conscience every unforeseen contingence that it contains.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

All things he had expected from Camilla except the thing she had done.
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

The idea of hunting people with bloodhounds seemed utterly foreign to his English nature, and he could not understand how his English friend could entertain such a thought; he probably forgot that a few generations earlier the hunting of all kinds of men, papists, dissenters, covenanters and rebels, with dogs, had been a favourite English sport.
— from A Tale of a Lonely Parish by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford