A moment later she drew her face away and whispered indignantly, ‘Why, Jim!
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

I catch an idea in every sentence of yours or of my own, and hasten to lock all these treasures in my literary store-room, thinking that some day they may be useful to me.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And we must lay special emphasis on the fact that the English people are shedding their blood for an Imperialistic war-aim."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Mr. Knightly being gone, my cozen Pepys and Moore and I to our business, being the clearing of my Lord Sandwich’s bond wherein I am bound with him to my cozen for L1000 I have at last by my dexterity got my Lord’s consent to have it paid out of the money raised by his prizes.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Moreover, he was earnestly admonished by many of the more learned sort, not to presume to live contrary to the universal custom of the Church, either in regard to the observance of Easter, or any other ordinances whatsoever, with those few followers of his dwelling in the farthest corner of the world.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

with the married— A case which to the juries we may leave, Since with digressions we too long have tarried.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

The most lay silent, but some muttered to themselves, and others talked together in a strange, low, monotonous voice, their conversation coming in gushes, and then suddenly tailing off into silence, each mumbling out his own thoughts, and paying little heed to the words of his neighbor.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

The feast was to be cooked by "John Gray, who was bred up in my Lord Shaftesbury's kitchen, and was my Lady Dowager's cook.
— from Locke by Thomas Fowler

Within two minutes or less after the Departure of my Lord Stour and her Ladyship, the last of the Crowd of Gentlemen and of Idlers had gone.
— from His Majesty's Well-Beloved An Episode in the Life of Mr. Thomas Betteron as told by His Friend John Honeywood by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

This word means literally strength — κράτος ; but it here means the strength, power, or authority which is exercised over others, and the expression is equivalent to a wish that he may reign .
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

3 There was a disorderly grandeur about the castellated mansion which should have required the ukase of this Sovereign of many leagues, surrounded by many hundreds of his retainers; but rarely the cry of the oppressed was allowed to disturb the Lord, while all within were exact in their appointments, as clock-work movements which were wound up in the government of these immense domestic establishments.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

On the right and left there were palaces, and between them extended indefinitely double colonnades of marble, leaving separate ways for footmen, beasts, and chariots; the whole under shade, and cooled by fountains of incessant flow.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

In my life some decisive events have happened; the last shackles have fallen that tied me to a world in which I must have perished soon, not only mentally, but physically.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

Mrs. Lü saw them coming, and realized that here was work for her to do, as the old chapel-keeper was little good at preaching.
— from Everlasting Pearl: One of China's Women by Anna Magdalena Johannsen

Thus it was the mountaineers later said that Leander fell into bad company.
— from The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895 by Mary Noailles Murfree