She lived in the solitude of her villa, remaining there during the winter in a melancholy tete-a-tete with old Vogotzine, who was always more or less under the effect of liquor.
— from Prince Zilah — Volume 2 by Jules Claretie

She groped her way toward her couch, and, throwing herself upon it, fell into a troubled sleep, which lasted until the entrance of Lorette the following day.
— from Mal Moulée: A Novel by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"Annette," said the old man, "I was always sure that there was some mistake; and always have I thought of you with the same regard, a love that will last until the end of life, and afterwards, whether in Heaven or Hell, will remain the same."
— from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada by James Edward Le Rossignol

I believe novelty was the first wheel that set it on work, and I need make no reflection upon the power of that charm: it was wholly a new thing, at least upon the Exchange of London; and the first occasion that gave it a room among public discourse, was some persons forming wagers on the return and success of King James, for which the Government took occasion to use them as they deserved.
— from An Essay Upon Projects by Daniel Defoe

I longed to enjoy the luxury of ignorant feeling, to love without knowing, to float like a leaf upon the eddies of life, drifted now to a sunny point, now to a solemn shade—now over glittering ripples, now over gleaming calms,—and not to determined ports, a trim vessel with an inexorable rudder.
— from Prue and I by George William Curtis

The men labored without spirit, yet strenuously; for they labored under the eye of La Salle.
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

It is a great thing to feel: "Here I shall live until the end of living comes, and then my sons will live here after me.
— from From Dublin to Chicago: Some Notes on a Tour in America by George A. Birmingham

snarled one of the younger men, who was less under the effect of liquor than the rest.
— from The House in the Mist by Anna Katharine Green