Though this gentleman had only one eye, having had the other knocked out owing, in his own words, to his valiant behaviour; and only one leg, the other having been broken in the same way owing to his valour; yet he had succeeded in winning all the kindly feeling of which Ustinya Fyodorovna was capable, and took the fullest advantage of it, and would probably have gone on for years living as her devoted satellite and toady if he had not finally drunk himself to death in the most pitiable way.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I leaned out of the coach-window, in hopes of witnessing the happy meeting, but a grove of trees shut it from my sight.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

His oddities were that he insisted on being present when his room was being swept, and that when he went out he locked his door, and took the key away with him.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Madeline has only written to her once, only once, Ned, and she didn’t think she would have forgotten her quite so soon, Ned.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

“You've got not dozens, but hundreds of witnesses, two hundred witnesses, two hundred have heard it, thousands have heard it!”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When I turned from it and repassed the trap-door, I could scarcely see my way down the ladder; the attic seemed black as a vault compared with that arch of blue air to which I had been looking up, and to that sunlit scene of grove, pasture, and green hill, of which the hall was the centre, and over which I had been gazing with delight.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

3 In heat of wrath, the horne of Israel hee Hath cleane cut off, and lest the enemie Be hindred, his right hand he doth retire, 100
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

This is demonstrated by that institution of theirs, which will not suffer any thing to hinder them from having all things in common; so that a rich man enjoys no more of his own wealth than he who hath nothing at all.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Over that area his observer was to hover sufficiently long to be able, on returning, to concoct a reliable and intelligible summary of what had come within his line of vision.
— from The Brighton Boys with the Flying Corps by James R. Driscoll

added she, grasping the cold hand of Wallace to her heart.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

It was now Christmas; and the festivities which took place at the Fort were attended with a good deal of rum drinking, in which Meek, according to his custom, joined, and as a considerable portion of their stock in trade consisted of this article, it may fairly be presumed that the home consumption of these two "lone traders" amounted to the larger half of what they had with so much trouble transported from Fort Hall.
— from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

He would either come to her, or write to her, or send some kind word by M. de Saint-Aignan.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

"If this damn fine schooner was yours," he observed, without turning his head, "she'd have been piled up long ago—like as not in broad daylight, on an island a thousand feet high."
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

Miller, then, was—heedless enough, let us call it—to hold in African bondage for twenty years a woman who, his own witnesses testified, had every appearance of being a white person, without ever having seen the shadow of a title for any one to own her, and with everything to indicate that there was none.
— from Strange True Stories of Louisiana by George Washington Cable

: “Although they had before prayed for victory over those who believed not, yet when there came unto them He of Whom they had knowledge, they disbelieved in Him.
— from Gems of Divine Mysteries by Bahá'u'lláh