Iam ego hanc mactatam victimam, si modo sancti quicquam in terris esse di 10 volunt, legatorum manibus dabo.’
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

'If Agnes is really confined in the Convent,' thought He, 'and hears my voice, She will recollect it, and possibly may find means to let me know that She is here.'
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Thou art not now her victorious [ 176 ] bridegroom; thou art her mangled victim, scattered on the precipices, as a slave found treacherous, recreant, ought to be, and must.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"' 'It is very remarkable, that he retained in his memory very slight and trivial, as well as important things.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Skrebensky was beautiful to her this morning, his face softened and transfused with suffering and with love, his movements very still and gentle.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

‘They’re all on ‘em men as has met vith some disappointment in life,’ said Mr. Weller, senior.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

" You, who know me, can fancy how steadfastly I gazed upon her rich dark eyes during these remarks, how my very soul gloated over her warm lips and fresh, glowing cheeks, how I became quite lost in the delightful meaning of her words, so much so, that I scarcely heard the actual expressions.
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

And Phaedra to Hippolitus, Me vel sororem Hippolite aut famulam voca, Famulamque potius, omne servitium feram.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Mummified and fossilated females, void of domestic duties, habits and natural affections; crack-brained, rheumatic, dyspeptic, henpecked men, vainly striving to achieve the liberty of opening their heads in presence of their wives; self-educated, oily-faced, insolent, gabbling negroes, and Theodore Tilton, make up the less than a hundred members of this caravan, called, by themselves, the American Equal Rights Association.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

"You can help me," he said in his magisterial voice, so deep yet so soft.
— from Gideon's Band: A Tale of the Mississippi by George Washington Cable

She may have mental vagaries, she is irritable and often melancholy and periods of seeming insanity may occur.
— from The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 3 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies by W. Grant (William Grant) Hague

[571] In any case it was their plan, vigorously and before all the world, to attack the author of the schism in his most vulnerable spot, where it would not be easy for him to defend himself publicly.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"It is adieu, not auf wiedersehen, I fear, with his Highness," Miss Vance said, folding the note pensively.
— from Frances Waldeaux: A Novel by Rebecca Harding Davis

‘ The President highly complimented the learned gentleman on his most valuable suggestion, which produced the greatest effect upon the assembly; and remarked that only a week previous he had seen some young gentlemen at a theatre eyeing a box of ladies with a fierce intensity, which nothing but the influence of some brutish appetite could possibly explain.
— from Sketches by Boz, Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People by Charles Dickens

With her heart in her mouth, Valerie smoothed his brow.
— from Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

If you had any heart you wouldn't torture me so constantly with the odor of those magnificent Havanas, when you know how my very soul longs for a weed!"
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

[19] Even in his most violent speeches against the Jews Stoecker did not draw the extreme biological consequences of his racial theories and continued to maintain that conversion was the only authentic solution to the Jewish question that would complete the universal mission of Christianity and that only baptism could save the Jews from their ignominious belief in the validity of the halacha after the coming of Jesus.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek