As that street-door closed, a sudden amazement at my own perverse proceeding struck like a blow upon me.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

a man, one, people, PP, S2; me , S. See Man .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

“ ‘I should be happy to advance it without further parley from my own private purse,’ said I, ‘were it not that the strain would be rather more than it could bear.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

In this new birth of nature, we feel the revival of our own life; the memories of past pleasures surround us; tears of delight, those companions of pleasure ever ready to accompany a pleasing sentiment, tremble on our eyelids.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But at parting the gods, being unwilling to let this mark of peace perish, shaped it into a man whose name was Kvaser, and who was so wise that no one could ask him any question that he could not answer.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

From his monastery, or prison, Photius solicited the favor of the emperor by pathetic complaints and artful flattery; and the eyes of his rival were scarcely closed, when he was again restored to the throne of Constantinople.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But adgredior and prōgredior and morior and ēmorior have sometimes the forms of verbs in -īrī ; for these, and for orior , arise , orīrī , ortus , and potior , become master of , potīrī , potītus , see 791 .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

As they scorned manifestation of physical pain, so they hid mental suffering beneath an exterior of grave impassibility.
— from The Crimson Conquest: A Romance of Pizarro and Peru by Charles B. (Charles Bradford) Hudson

However, the injury by no means reached madness, or plague, properly so called; it was a sort of delirium which was not at all times easily to be perceived, and which was often concealed under a very plausible appearance of reason.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire

M ONTEATH , 140 Advantage of converting our coppice oak into forest, and of saving our home oak in time of peace, 142 Plan, by Mr Monteath, of preparing peat soils for planting, 143 ————— of covering bare rocky ground with timber, 144 ————— of raising oak-forest or copse by layers, 146 Influence of our vernal eastern breeze on vegetation, 148 Cause why the trees of narrow belts seldom grow to large timber, 150 Observations on pruning and thinning, 154 Observations on the age at which the valuable part of oak bark is thickest, 157 Observations on the prevention of dry-rot, 163 II.—
— from On Naval Timber and Arboriculture With Critical Notes on Authors who have Recently Treated the Subject of Planting by Patrick Matthew

Nays. —Messrs. Adams, Armstrong, Baldwin, Bradley, Brown, Condit, Dayton, Franklin, Hillhouse, Jackson, Maclay, Olcott, Pickering, Plumer, Stone, Tracy, Wells, and White.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

Illustrated by WOOD AS a blisteringly hot but guaranteed weather-controlled future summer day dawned on the Mississippi Valley, the walking mills of Puffy Products ("Spike to Loaf in One Operation!") began to tread delicately on their centipede legs across the wheat fields of Kansas.
— from Bread Overhead by Fritz Leiber

I can not say why, except that he hung about his master obsequiously, power pack smoothly purring, and he was slim limbed, nickel-plated, and wore, I thought, a smug expression on his viziplate.
— from B-12's Moon Glow by Charles A. Stearns