Archer's heart had slammed itself shut in the queer way it had, and he sat vainly groping for a word.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

In vain she pointed out to him how necessary was the protection of Lord Steyne for her poor husband; how cruel it would be on their part to deprive Briggs of the position offered to her. Cajolements, coaxings, smiles, tears could not satisfy Sir Pitt, and he had something very like a quarrel with his once admired Becky.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Rhine wine, please,” said the young officer, stealing a timid glance at Vronsky, and trying to pull his scarcely visible mustache.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

“Everything’s still the same with them,” thought Nicholas, glancing into the drawing room, where he saw Véra and his mother with the old lady.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"Handsome or not, he is human," said Vasili Ivanitch.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

A despairing shout was suddenly heard somewhere very close at hand.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Sole Victor from th’ expulsion of his Foes Messiah his triumphal Chariot turnd: To meet him all his Saints, who silent stood Eye witnesses of his Almightie Acts, With Jubilie advanc’d; and as they went, Shaded with branching Palme, each order bright, Sung Triumph, and him sung Victorious King, Son, Heire, and Lord, to him Dominion giv’n, Worthiest to Reign: he celebrated rode Triumphant through mid Heav’n, into the Courts And Temple of his mightie Father Thron’d On high; who into Glorie him receav’d, Where now he sits at the right hand of bliss.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

MOS: The plate is here, sir. VOLT: How fare you, sir? VOLP:
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

"Your performance was exceptionally good," he said very soberly.
— from Wheels Within by Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet

Four years later, at the age of twenty-one, she published her second volume, "Admetus and Other Poems," which at once took rank as literature both in America and England, and challenged comparison with the work of established writers.
— from The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Emma Lazarus

IV, p. 271; Hughes’s Causes and Results of the Inkpaduta Massacre in the Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society , Vol.
— from The Spirit Lake Massacre by Thomas Teakle

The gentleman had spoken very loudly, and every one in the room had listened to what he said.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders

“Do you know,” he said, very calmly, “the name of Madame Vanel’s new lover?” “Ah!
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

"Marette is much better," she said in her soft voice.
— from The Valley of Silent Men: A Story of the Three River Country by James Oliver Curwood

The Sheep and Cows have some very fierce relations in distant countries, as the Gnu and Yak and Bison, and also some very accommodating and useful relations, like the Camel, Dromedary, Llama and Paca, who are as helpful to their masters and owners as the domestic animals of this country.
— from A Natural History for Young People: Our Animal Friends in Their Native Homes including mammals, birds and fishes by Phebe Westcott Humphreys