It is plain, from Murdoch's surprise, that her being out of her captors' sight is looked on as dangerous, from which we may infer that she is not entirely crazed.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

This neglect soon banished all the favourable impressions she felt for me, and the rage of a slighted woman took place in her heart; this she manifested not only in all the suggestions her malice could invent to my prejudice with her father, but also in procuring for me such servile employments as she hoped would sufficiently humble my spirit.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

You now have a skeleton or outline of your address that in its polished form might serve either as the brief, or manuscript notes, for the speech or as the guide-outline which you will expand into the written address, if written it is to be.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

If poor famishing men shall, prior to death, gather in groups and crowds, as the poor fieldfares and plovers do in bitter weather, were it but that they may chirp mournfully together, and misery look in the eyes of misery; if famishing men ( what famishing fieldfares cannot do ) should discover, once congregated, that they need not die while food is in the land, since they are many, and with empty wallets have right hands: in all this, what need were there of Preternatural Machinery?
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Not a tear rose to Burns’ eye; and, while I paused from my sewing, because my fingers quivered at this spectacle with a sentiment of unavailing and impotent anger, not a feature of her pensive face altered its ordinary expression.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

For my arguments, sir, are dictated by a disinterested spirit: I plead for my sex, not for myself.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

Thence to Mr. Backewell’s, the goldsmith, where I took my Lord’s L100 in plate for Mr. Secretary Nicholas, and my own piece of plate, being a state dish and cup in chased work for Mr. Coventry, cost me above L19.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In short, I parted from my schoolfellows as soon as I got out into the world.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lady Rookwood's honor is pledged for my safety.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

In the present edition I have put this book into what must be (for some time at least) its permanent form, making such additions and alterations as seemed necessary.
— from Anglo-Saxon Primer, With Grammar, Notes, and Glossary Eighth Edition Revised by Henry Sweet

These slaughters also afford great quantities of hides, especially goat-skins, which they dress like Morocco leather, by them called cordovanes, and is sent into Peru for making shoes, or other uses.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Occasionally someone was committed for complicity in procuring Fleet marriages: see cases in Ashton , op.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

Now here he is put from making satisfaction, “Who can abide with everlasting burnings?”
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Moreover in the past, perhaps in payment for my sins, I have lived other lives of which some memory remains with me.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Pressing steadily into the north that afternoon, first at a gallop, then more and more slowly until Ragtime was picking his own gait, the girl smiled in pity for Miss Sarah and her day which had never dawned.
— from Then I'll Come Back to You by Larry Evans

If my present sufferings are due not to my acts, but to the acts of the person in whom my soul dwelt before, it is possible for me so to act that my soul's future existence may be better and not worse than this one, and that it shall not sink but rise in the order of beings, and draw nearer to its final deliverance.
— from History of Religion A Sketch of Primitive Religious Beliefs and Practices, and of the Origin and Character of the Great Systems by Allan Menzies