Presently he emerged, looking even more flurried than before.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Ar' oun en toutois monon aporiais aphyktois ho Erasistratou logos enechetai mê boulêthentos chrêsasthai tais helktikais dynamesin eis mêden, ê sphodrotata men en toutois kai saphôs houtôs, hôs an mêde paida lathein?
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

mẽcadã tare ne fece dire el re poy cheL re deſpagia voleua eſere ſuo amicho lui era contentiſſimo de eſſer ſuo et diſſe pigliaſſemo hacqua et legnia et merchadantaſemo a nr̃o piacere
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

"What do you want, sir?" said she, in a voice which fell upon his ears like exquisite music.
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

In his early life, Edwin Markham, the poet, had but three books, the Bible, Shakspere, and Bunyan.
— from Living the Radiant Life: A Personal Narrative by George Wharton James

She tried to smile as she waited upon her guests; but her face grew paler and her eyes larger every moment.
— from Alice Wilde: The Raftsman's Daughter. A Forest Romance by Metta Victoria Fuller Victor

There is dramatic invention in the very cadence: "Ah, but how each loved each, Marquis!
— from An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons

146 Ah, but how each loved each, Marquis!
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

that our bodies are sustained, the hard earth loosened, excessive moisture reduced, and the surly bonds of winter broken by the heat of the one, and that crops are brought to ripeness by the effectual all-pervading warmth of the other?
— from L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

At last, when he judged the silence had endured long enough, Mr. Dalroyd spoke: "Major d'Arcy, Ben's simile is perchance a little harsh, for he would have us all satyrs, in that at some time or other, every man doth seek, pursue and hunt the lovely sex to his own selfish end.
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol