Yet as I left I find them here!" Whereat the poet, without seeming to reflect that the poor tawny wanderers might probably have been tramping for weeks together through road and lane, over moor and mountain, and consequently must have been right glad to rest themselves, their children and cattle, for one whole day; and overlooking the obvious truth, that such repose might be quite as necessary for them, as a walk of the same continuance was pleasing or healthful for the more fortunate poet; expresses his indignation in a series of lines, the diction and imagery of which would have been rather above, than below the mark, had they been applied to the immense empire of China improgressive for thirty centuries: "The weary Sun betook himself to rest:— —Then issued Vesper from the fulgent west, Outshining, like a visible God, The glorious path in which he trod.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I was harassed and ill, resolved not to give up my post, yet doubting in what way I should assert it; when Adrian called me, and clasping my hand, bade me not leave him.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She was the first to go, after kissing me and calling me her best friend.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Then she suddenly ran towards me, and catching my hand before I could pluck it away, she kissed it.
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the days when Aigues Mortes was not a dream, but a terrible reality to the prisoners of that cruel tower, how many anguished cries must have broken the spell; cries from hideous little dungeons like rat-holes, cries from the far heights of the tower where women and children starved and were forgotten!
— from The Motor Maid by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

"Make haste," repeated her mother every moment, and Cecilia made haste, but with the air of one who had no heart for what she was about.
— from Popular Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

Hazel lurched unsteadily at first, but presently she caught the swinging motion and could maintain her balance without holding stiffly to the saddle horn.
— from North of Fifty-Three by Bertrand W. Sinclair

The clear-skinned maid who placed the tea things, and brought the muffins and cake, might have been transported that instant from Mayfair, on a magic carpet, so neat was her black dress, so spotless her white apron, cap, and cuffs, so clean her slender hands.
— from The Mystery of Murray Davenport: A Story of New York at the Present Day by Robert Neilson Stephens

After which they gravely tell us that this matter is incapable of producing anything, not even of setting itself in motion, and consequently must have been created by their God.
— from God and the State by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

It afforded the several parties opportunity to settle the speeches they intended to make, and certainly must have been useful in the way of allaying the angry passions of their several minds.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various