For me, who was almost as much pleased on horseback as on foot, I would have desired no better than to have travelled thus during my whole life; but it was pre-ordained that my journey should soon end.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

His eyes were wild and his hair flying, and he was breathing hoarsely, like a wounded bull; but the people on the car did not notice this particularly—perhaps it seemed natural to them that a man who smelled as Jurgis smelled should exhibit an aspect to correspond.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

It is through just such small expeditions that they collect a relatively considerable amount of utilities from all surrounding districts, and these they can give to such visitors as need and desire them.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I went to make the bed after breakfast, and the door was locked; and not a mouse to be heard; and it’s been just so silent ever since.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

So I rose, and his business was to ask advice of me, he being summonsed to the House of Lords to-morrow, for endeavouring to arrest my Lady Peters [Elizabeth, daughter of John Savage, second Earl Rivers, and first wife to William, fourth Lord Petre, who was, in 1678, impeached by the Commons of high treason, and died under confinement in the Tower, January 5th, 1683, s. p.—B.] for a debt.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If she has given you one of her spells, you need not envy those of the fairies.' 'If it is strong enough to enchant your judgment, sir,' said Emily, 'while I disclose her images, I need NOT envy them.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

y promènerez en sénateur, je serai souvent en bon paysan Suisse, devant mon châlet, ou dans ma chaumière; puis nous nous rencontrerons tout à coup, et tâcherons de nous remettre au niveau l'un de l'autre.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

“Wa'al, Jane!” said she, excitedly, in the afternoon, “there they go ag'in!
— from Half-A-Dozen Housekeepers: A Story for Girls in Half-A-Dozen Chapters by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

It was of that fast-sickening France, of that blighted land of France, that Mr. Jefferson spoke so earnestly in the gathering darkness of that winter's day in the year 1789.
— from Calvert of Strathore by Abbe Carter Goodloe

9 J. Scaliger says, Epistolas, Græcorum more, Phocylidæ atque Theognidis [Horatius] scripsit: præceptis philosophiæ divulsis minimeque inter se cohærentibus .
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 1 (of 8) by Richard Hurd