While she paused, the music ceased; and, after a momentary hesitation, she re-collected courage to advance to the fishing-house, which she entered with faltering steps, and found unoccupied!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Hepsey used to watch her as she sat buried in her book when the day's work was done, and once a heavy sigh roused Christie from the most exciting crisis of "The Abbot."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Thus with terrific threats to her Spake Rávaṇ, cruel ravener.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Timotheitch had stammered out this denial for the reason that he had suddenly recollected certain strict injunctions imposed upon him before starting.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

You men have such restless curiosity!
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

and unquestionably what Scott wrote, every other edition that we have seen reads "cliff.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

He led his Africans to the gates of Rome, where he found three armies in order of battle, prepared to receive him; but Hannibal dreaded the event of a combat, from which he could not hope to escape, unless he destroyed the last of his enemies; and his speedy retreat confessed the invincible courage of the Romans.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Sancho, as has been already said, was the only one who was distressed, unhappy, and dejected; and so with a long face he went in to his master, who had just awoke, and said to him: “Sir Rueful Countenance, your worship may as well sleep on as much as you like, without troubling yourself about killing any giant or restoring her kingdom to the princess; for that is all over and settled now.” “I should think it was,” replied Don Quixote, “for I have had the most prodigious and stupendous battle with the giant that I ever remember having had all the days of my life; and with one back-stroke—swish!—I brought his head tumbling to the ground, and so much blood gushed forth from him that it ran in rivulets over the earth like water.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

These were his sole remaining capabilities—to wink, and to look agreeable.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 by Various

Chapter III Paragraph 11 ^^ these were, however soon rallied > these were, however, soon rallied Chapter III Paragraph 17 ^ they run to their arms and returned....
— from A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a History of His Brigade by William Dobein James

[in outward show the meanest of men]; yea, they by the means of the Holy Ghost have so ratified, confirmed, and settled the gospel in the world, that no philosopher, tyrant, or devil, hath been able hitherto to move it out of its place.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

When Mr. Playfair had chosen Ocky Waffles to be office-manager of the Sandport Real Estate Concern, he had shown remarkable cunning.
— from The Raft by Coningsby Dawson

And at the same time—although Pompey did not know it—Peggy would be gazing so sadly into the potassium fire, and thinking of him; she really could not help it, although she knew it was wrong, and poor pretty Mrs Polypus couldn’t be expected to be very cheery, could she?
— from Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites by Gordon Stables

And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?" "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town?
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

It has now long been recognised that, if a man wishes to be a chemist, it is not only necessary that he should read chemical books and attend chemical lectures, but that he should actually perform the fundamental experiments in the laboratory for himself, and thus learn [Page: 158] exactly what the words which he finds in his books and hears from his teachers, mean.
— from American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology by Thomas Henry Huxley