If I felt any emotion at all, it was a kind of chuckling satisfaction at the cleverness I was about to display in extricating myself from this dilemma; and I never, for a moment, looked upon my ultimate safety as a question susceptible of doubt.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Chr, CP : (±) keep, guard, preserve, foster, cherish, defend , Æ, Bl, Mt, Ps ; AO: withhold, lock up : maintain, uphold, support , Æ, LL : regard, observe, fulfil, do, practise , Bl ; Æ: take care , CP: celebrate, hold ( festival ): hold out (intr.), last .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Come, let us make up; shake hands, child.
— from Cinq Mars — Complete by Alfred de Vigny

We quickly ran from under it, when, looking up, my uncle shouted loudly, and immediately a loud chattering was heard, and away scampered a whole tribe of monkeys, making an enormous rustling as they leaped among the dead palm-leaves.
— from In the Eastern Seas by William Henry Giles Kingston

7. I had even the satisfaction to see her lavish some kind looks upon my unfortunate son, which the other could neither extort by his fortune nor assiduity.
— from An English Grammar by James Witt Sewell

I had even the satisfaction to see her lavish some kind looks upon my unfortunate son, which the other could neither extort by his fortune nor assiduity.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

I stood pressing my two hands upon my temples in anxious thought a few moments, then asked: 'Do I look unlike my usual self, Becky—ill? Tell me exactly how I look to you?' thinking of the effect which the first sight of me had had upon her!
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 707, July 14, 1877 by Various