There is only a burning in my mouth and a soreness in my throat, but I am all right all over, thank God. . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Now, if I could persuade him to have one or two rooms made habitable, and to let them to me as a stranger, I might live there, with my child, under an assumed name, and still support myself by my favourite art.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

I called Charley back, and when she came—at first pretending to smile, but as she drew nearer to me, looking grieved—I took her in my arms and said, "It matters very little, Charley.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

For a moment he ceased, but she had barely become conscious of it, when, rising from his chair, he said, “And now, Fanny, having performed one part of my commission, and shewn you everything placed on a basis the most assured and satisfactory, I may execute the remainder by prevailing on you to accompany me downstairs, where, though I cannot but presume on having been no unacceptable companion myself, I must submit to your finding one still better worth listening to.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

You remember that, don't you?" I leaned closer, with my heart pounding under my midriff and a singing in my ears.
— from The Man Who Couldn't Sleep by Arthur Stringer

Page 192 (When the first flood of enthusiasm, after the Bloomington Convention, subsided, a mysterious apathy, a stifling indifference, met the new movement, a no unusual phenomenon in politics or human affairs.)
— from Lincoln, the Politician by T. Aaron Levy

And with that pleasant and satisfactory thought in my mind and a song in my throat I swung into the Great Road.
— from The Friendly Road: New Adventures in Contentment by David Grayson

The bride and bridegroom, probably because of the local custom of kissing every minute, kissed with such gusto that their lips made a loud smack, and it gave me a taste of sugary raisins in my mouth and a spasm in my left calf.
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But I had spent my all, and so I made a virtue of necessity, and stood aloof looking round me in silent wonder as to what the end would be.
— from Missing Friends Being the Adventures of a Danish Emigrant in Queensland (1871-1880) by Thorvald Peter Ludwig Weitemeyer

Moreover, as all such intrinsic modes immediately arise from the intrinsic reception of accidental acts, it follows that those accidental modes which do not arise in this manner must be extrinsic ; and therefore such modes, though they are predicated of their subject, do not inhere in the subject, but only in a certain manner adhere to it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

I met Miss Forester twenty minutes ago, and she invited me to go and see her this evening.
— from Girls New and Old by L. T. Meade

To expose the bone, the cheek is divided from the angle of the mouth, to the origin of the masseter, and a second incision made from the inner canthus to the edge of the upper 307 lip near the mesial line, detaching the alæ of the nose from the maxillary bone.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston