It was then deemed that he had lost all memory of the period which had elapsed since he boarded the Pawtucket car.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

He liked Odette to say these things, just as, if he had been in love with a Breton girl, he would have enjoyed seeing her in her coif and hearing her say that she believed in ghosts.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

His eyes sunk, his face pale, with a long beard.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

‘Yes,’ said Sam; ‘but that’s nothin’ if we could find out the young ‘ooman;’ and here Sam, with many digressions upon the personal beauty of Mary, and the unspeakable tortures he had experienced since he last saw her, gave a faithful account of Mr. Winkle’s present predicament.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The accusation reads that Mrs. C. had carried on an illicit relationship with Karl M. while her own husband was on the battlefield, from which he even sent her 70 Kronen a month.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But neither in the street he had passed through, nor in the one which his eager glance pervaded, could he see anyone; however slowly the stranger had walked, he was gone on his way, or perhaps had entered some house.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But during the ten days which had elapsed since her return to New York she had perhaps guessed from his silence, and from the fact of his making no attempt to see her, that he was meditating a decisive step, a step from which there was no turning back.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Thereupon Brother Lustig travelled a long time about the world, and those who know them can tell many a story about him, but at last he grew old, and thought of his end, so he went to a hermit who was known to be a pious man, and said to him, "I am tired of wandering about, and want now to behave in such a manner that I shall enter into the kingdom of Heaven."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

her eyes said, "he is after you!
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

She looked younger, more beautiful, than Dosia had ever seen her.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 by Various

Her Majesty sent to tell him she thought it very strange he should act in this fashion, seeing she had had permission to write; that they even found it strange she had not done it, and that the Queen of England expected it, and one single letter from her might have kept them back, and if she had received it they might not have come here—that he himself, after the return of Lord Buckhurst, had offered to do this, and had even sent her letter.
— from The Last Days of Mary Stuart, and the journal of Bourgoyne her physician by Samuel Cowan

And William was among them and of them, her hands deep in her pockets, her collar turned up over her ears, stamping her feet on the platforms as she walked up and down to get warm, visiting from carriage to carriage and everywhere being congratulated.
— from The Day's Work - Volume 1 by Rudyard Kipling

Not only has the legal status of the Negro been gravely affected by these disfranchising enactments; his economic status has also been lowered.
— from The Disfranchisement of the Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 6 by John L. Love

I see the children next day and told 'em how it wuz, that their Pa seemed more sot on his plan than ever, and talked more excited and earnest about it than I had ever seen him.
— from Samantha at the St. Louis Exposition by Marietta Holley

“Lebyadkin’s cunning, madam,” he said, winking with his evil smile; “he’s cunning, but he too has a weak spot, he too at times is in the portals of passions, and these portals are the old military hussars’ bottle, celebrated by Denis Davydov.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Dr. Addington subsequently practised in the metropolis, then retired to Reading, and there married; and in 1757 was born his eldest son, Henry Addington, who was educated at Winchester and Oxford, and called to the Bar in 1784.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs