The air of completeness and superiority with which she walked at my side, and the air of youthfulness and submission with which I walked at hers, made a contrast that I strongly felt.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nor can you plead the league then made and claim that it should now protect you.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Now, whatever, either on good or upon bad grounds, tends to raise a man in his own opinion, produces a sort of swelling and triumph, that is extremely grateful to the human mind; and this swelling is never more perceived, nor operates with more force, than when without danger we are conversant with terrible objects; the mind always claiming to itself some part of the dignity and importance of the things which it contemplates.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

He then sent a message to King Trygve to meet him, that they might make a cruise together in summer in the Baltic to plunder.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

"One glance through the magnifying-glass at the infinitely superior eye of the common house-fly is enough to—" "Enough to make any Christian thankful, I should say, that his eyes are what Providence made them."
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

I’ll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Cæsar till I shake the senate.
— from Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 3 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Sem. Let me alone, good Syphax, I'll conceal My thoughts in passion ('tis the surest way); I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Cæsar, till I shake the senate.
— from Cato: A Tragedy, in Five Acts by Joseph Addison

Towards the end of the position there was a considerable descent; another mountain rose at nearly right angles, the ravine to the left went round it, but to the right it finished, and a circuitous road led from the foot of the mountain, and conducted to its summit, where we discovered a strong body of Egyptians covering another column, who were retiring along the road I have mentioned.
— from The War in Syria, Volume 1 (of 2) by Charles Napier

I will bring you up under oath, and make you tell how this Cigole—this man who testifies against me—once made a certain testimony in Sicily against a certain Langhetti senior, by which that certain Langhetti senior was betrayed to the Government, and was saved only by the folly of two Englishmen, one of whom was this same Despard.
— from Cord and Creese by James De Mille