He sat down upon a rich settee; and took hold of my hand, and said, Don't doubt me, Pamela.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

In his mind he attempts several different illuminations of the same object, and divides the whole by an additional contrast.—Oh, that we now possessed the eyes of such an actor and such a painter for the province of the human soul!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It was a mere head and shoulders, done in what is technically termed a vignette manner; much in the style of the favorite heads of Sully.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

An earnest consideration, therefore, of anything desired is apt to enlarge and generalise aspiration till it embraces an ideal life; for from almost any starting-point the limits and contours of mortal happiness are soon descried.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

At last he mastered himself and sat down once more at his desk.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

And now when the space between the Romans and the wall had been leveled, which was done in four days, and as he was desirous to bring the baggage of the army, with the rest of the multitude that followed him, safely to the camp, he set the strongest part of his army over against that wall which lay on the north quarter of the city, and over against the western part of it, and made his army seven deep, with the foot-men placed before them, and the horsemen behind them, each of the last in three ranks, whilst the archers stood in the midst in seven ranks.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

For the unjust is pursuing a reality; he does not live with a view to appearances—he wants to be really unjust and not to seem only:— 'His mind has a soil deep and fertile, Out of which spring his prudent counsels.
— from The Republic by Plato

But it was only for a moment; his arm soon dropped by his side, and a look of hopeless fatality crossed his face.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

Oh, then he would bear her away at once, as far, far away as possible; to the farthest end of Russia, if not of the earth, then he would marry her, and settle down with her incognito, so that no one would know anything about them, there, here, or anywhere.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Queen Louisa quitted Memel, humiliated and sorrowful down to the very depths of her soul.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

She moved half a step down and stayed herself on her sister's shoulder.
— from Kincaid's Battery by George Washington Cable

In the course of the day I walked with my host a short distance up the hill, when we stopped at a large pit, covered with a net work, made of whales' sinews.
— from The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat

“I met him at Swainson,” doggedly answered Afy.
— from East Lynne by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

6m. morning, having a southern declination of 30 deg.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 267, August 4, 1827 by Various

They had plenty of time and they concluded to make him a suit different from any other boy's.
— from Watch Yourself Go By by Al. G. (Alfred Griffith) Field

He read it, smiled, whistled a bar or two from "Miss Helyett," and sat down to answer it on his best cream-laid note-paper.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

My head aches so damnably that I am incapable of thought.
— from Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini