Thank ye, sir, thank ye," said Dagley, with a loud snarling irony which made Fag the sheep-dog stir from his seat and prick his ears; but seeing Monk enter the yard after some outside loitering, Fag seated himself again in an attitude of observation.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In six months, take her as much as ever you like, but at the present moment, honour, such as people attach (why, I don't know) to these things, [Pg 125] forces me to tell you, to my great regret, that, if by chance you have not the justice to wait till your turn comes round, one of us must die."
— from On Love by Stendhal

He had a look at all the details of the hunt, sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry, mounted his chestnut Donéts, and whistling to his own leash of borzois, set off across the threshing ground to a field leading to the Otrádnoe wood.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There he saw a poor thin horse with a worn rag of a saddle on his back.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

In the evening her father found her looking rather tired, but he seemed as pleased as I was.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

After pausing to enjoy the exquisite pleasure of complete insertion, he stooped, and passing a hand round my belly laid hold of my stiff-standing prick with one hand, while he gently pressed the ballocks with the other.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Stromatum l. post captam Trojam cum impetu ferretur, ad occidendam Helenam, stupore adeo pulchritudinis correptus ut ferrum excideret, &c. 4843 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I stand ashamed and in amaze, And answer "Yes" to all he says, A poor, unknowing child!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

In the secretary of the theatre, Hofrat Winkler (known as Theodor Hell), I also had an old friend of my family, besides which I had been introduced to the conductor, Reissiger, with whom I and my friend Apel had spent a pleasant evening on the occasion of our excursion to Bohemia in earlier days.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Strong teeth fastened themselves in his shoulder, and powerful legs wound themselves about his torso.
— from Jungle Tales of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Kitchin, [504] on the other hand, thinks that the lord can never increase the amount of the admission fine; while Coke, [505] in a well-known passage, emphasises the copyholder’s security as long as he makes no breach in the custom by failing in his services, and points out that he can protect himself either by proceedings in Chancery or by a writ of trespass.
— from The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by R. H. (Richard Henry) Tawney

St. Gregory (540-604) has in his sacramentary a “Preface for St. George’s Day”; and the Venerable Bede (672-735) in his martyrology, says: “At last St. George truly finished his martyrdom by decapitation, although the gests of his passion are numbered among the apocryphal writings.”
— from Fictitious & Symbolic Creatures in Art With Special Reference to Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb

We have seen a patient on the point of giving in and lying down as a helpless invalid made perfectly fit for work in less than an hour by this mode of treatment.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

How could you even prove that I had such a paper?"
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

However, Norm could talk, and expressed his surprise and pleasure in eager words.
— from Little Fishers: and Their Nets by Pansy