But he says she’ll never be able to read much or do any fine hand-work again.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This John Cock had left the town with his whole family, and locked up his house, and was gone in the country, as many others did; and finding the plague so decreased in November that there died but 905 per week of all diseases, he ventured home again.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

THE MASSACRE OF THE ANI′-KUTA′NĬ Among other perishing traditions is that relating to the Ani′-Kuta′nĭ or Ani′-Kwăta′nĭ, concerning whom the modern Cherokee know so little that their very identity is now a matter of dispute, a few holding that they were an ancient people who preceded the Cherokee and built the mounds, while others, with more authority, claim that they were a clan or society in the tribe and were destroyed long ago by pestilence or other calamity.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and what she had done with it; and she tried to settle that most difficult problem for women, how much was to be utterly merged in obedience to authority, and how much might be set apart for freedom in working.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

But she would wake in the morning one day and feel her blood running, feel herself lying open like a flower unsheathed in the sun, insistent and potent with demand.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Then she jumped up with a manner of decision, and fetched her desk from a side table.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I understood not then the work that was going on within me; but I occasionally experienced moments of delight arising from the conviction that divine assistance and protection accompanied the course I was pursuing.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Ivan Ossipovitch, who was a man of delicacy and feeling, was completely abashed.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I often repeated to myself the most affecting and impassioned passages, adding in fancy her voice, her gesture, her tone, her look; I would answer her, and thus succeed in producing such a complete delusion of her real presence, that I felt impatient and annoyed when I was summoned to meals, or interrupted by visitors; at these times it seemed as though she were torn from me, or driven away from my room.
— from Raphael; Or, Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty by Alphonse de Lamartine

“Thus, Sir, I have given you a clear and full account of my transactions; and, as I may justify my own diligence and faithfulness therein, so I cannot but condemn my many weaknesses and failings; of which I can only say that they were not wilful, and make a humble demand to your Highness and this honourable Council, that I may obtain your pardon.”
— from A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Bulstrode Whitlocke

But when he accused me of duplicity and forwardness, and said I had run after Mr. Ralston, it roused me, and I said I loved him and I never would marry anyone else.
— from A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas

After the first moment of distrust and fear, the muleteers and wagoners, involuntarily submitting to the influence of their favourite pastime, had utterly forgotten their apprehensions, and fraternised with the soldiers.
— from The Bee Hunters: A Tale of Adventure by Gustave Aimard

“From brightening fields of ether fair disclosed, Child of the Sun , refulgent Summer comes, In pride of youth, and felt through Nature’s depth; He comes, attended by the Hours And ever-fanning Breezes , on his way; While from his ardent look, the turning Spring Averts her blushful face; and earth and skies, All-smiling, to his hot dominion leaves. … “When now, no more the alternate Twins are fired, And Cancer reddens with the Solar blaze, Short is the doubtful empire of the Night; And soon, observant of approaching Day, The meek-eyed Morn appears, mother of Dews, At first faint-gleaming in the dappled East; Till far o’er Ether spreads the widening glow;
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, June 1885, No. 9 by Chautauqua Institution

How many moments of supreme happiness have you given me, days of bliss with my beloved, nights of anxiety away from her, moments of doubt and fear, moments of heavenly exaltation.
— from Polly the Pagan: Her Lost Love Letters by Isabel Anderson

"Over his wine so smiled and talked his hour Sylvester Blougram"—talked and smiled to a silent listener concerning the strange mixture of doubt and faith which lie snugly side by side in the mind of an ecclesiastic who is at once a hypocrite and a sincere believer in the Church.
— from Shelburne Essays, Third Series by Paul Elmer More

Then the messengers of death arrived from the palace, and the executioners began to nail his limbs.
— from Vikram and the Vampire; or, Tales of Hindu Devilry by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It was my first, my only dream; and from that time I feel an eternal and unchanging faith in the heaven of the Night, and in its light, the Loved One.
— from Peter Schlemihl by Adelbert von Chamisso