At half after one in the morning the man at the helm saw something under the lee-beam that the sea washed against, and he immediately called to me that there was a grampus, and desired me to look at it.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

“I do think it is such a pity Anne is leaving when the children seem so much attached to her,” sighed Mrs. Peter Sloane, who had a habit of sighing over everything and even finished off her jokes that way.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Thanks to the perfection of our apparatus, we were forty-five fathoms below the limit which nature seems to have imposed on man as to his submarine excursions.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

I held him in my arms till he sank gradually down.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

Madame, aware that her stay at school was now limited to a certain period, which would not be extended whether she made progress or not, allowed her great licence in this particular.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

You will recollect my saying to some ladies the other day, that I had often wondered why young women should marry, as they have so much more freedom, and so much more attention paid to them while unmarried, than when married.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

She only said that you might apply to her steward at Christmas, which was the time, she believed, when he settled her affairs; but as to herself, she never meddled with such insignificant matters.'
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

Ponsonby was silent for a few moments, and then he said, speaking with a certain hesitation and diffidence: “I could be satisfied to wait and to go on hoping, if I were sure of one thing:… that you did not care for anybody else.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

I was vexed with Clement for having seemed to doubt us, and I did not refrain from showing my annoyance that he should have accepted any kind of office in the rotten French State.
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

91 , 93 , and 96 , where the red lettering is massed at the head, side, and foot of the black).
— from Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering by Edward Johnston

He professes to have seen the Father and Christ, the heavenly mother and the heavenly sister.
— from Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume II (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. by Scherzer, Karl, Ritter von

One lady of the pave, whom my companion addressed in terms of complimentary gallantry, said—"Little boy, go home to your mother and tell her she wants you!"
— from My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself. by George Thompson

Mollie answered to his sudden impulse as a boat answers at once to its helm.
— from Abington Abbey: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

The former seemed at a loss how to break silence for some moments, and then he said,— "Lady ——" "Oh, Heavens! 'tis he!" exclaimed Bertha, as she sprang to her feet; "it is Sir Arthur Home!"
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest