This was a determination to throw herself entirely into whatever she undertook, and it made her feel as if she had eyes even at the tips of her fingers, and could hear down into her very heart.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Though he had heard of the unsettled state of the country because of the long-continued intestine strife, he evidently expected to find the capital a splendid city.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

She doesn't ask me questions any more, as if she had experienced everything in life and did not expect to hear anything new.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I am still doubtful at times as to marrying; if the old man would die I might not hesitate, but a state of dependance on the caprice of Sir Reginald will not suit the freedom of my spirit; and if I resolve to wait for that event, I shall have excuse enough at present in having been scarcely ten months a widow.
— from Lady Susan by Jane Austen

My rooms, this drawing-room, which I lived in during the first days of our acquaintance, and when I saw her every evening, have become insupportable to me.
— from On Love by Stendhal

But tired as I was that night I still had enthusiasm enough to visit Haught's camp, and renew acquaintance with the hounds.
— from Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey

Young Quintus I shall handle end english-page end new-parallel-page [Pg 330] adhibebo.
— from Cicero: Letters to Atticus, Vol. 2 of 3 by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Indeed, it is astonishing that such an idea should have ever entered the mind of any person, who has any knowledge of nature, or particularly of the human frame; for, if the gout is a disease of indirect debility, and the effect of intemperance, as will be shown by and by, then a medicine to cure it must be something to enable a man to bear the daily effects of intemperance, during his future life, unhurt by the gout, or any other disease; that is, it must be something given now, that will take away the effects of a future cause; as well might a medicine be given to prevent a man breaking his leg, or his arm, seven years hence.
— from Popular Lectures on Zoonomia Or The Laws of Animal Life, in Health and Disease by Thomas Garnett

Born at Castle Woods, Virginia, Seventeen hundred four and seventy By and by he journeyed westward, Settling near to Whitley’s Station, And in seventeen hundred eighty, Emigrated thence to Garrard, Where the sun went down upon him, On his brilliant life of labor, In eighteen hundred five and thirty.
— from The Song of Lancaster, Kentucky To the statesmen, soldiers, and citizens of Garrard County. by Eugenia Dunlap Potts

When I looked at the New Lady I saw her eyes ever so slightly misted.
— from Friendship Village Love Stories by Zona Gale

I was in a state of mind in which I verily believe I should have enjoyed eating a plate of porridge for supper, or a dish of sauerkraut for dinner.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

And my term was nearly out when Captain Stillwater became a daily visitor to the house, and I saw him every evening.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

Hence I say his evident excitement, if we may use the phrase.
— from Joy in Service; Forgetting, and Pressing Onward; Until the Day Dawn by George Tybout Purves

I shall have everything, everything.
— from A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School by L. T. Meade