Gusty began to cry, Ann Elizy to wave a minute red cotton handkerchief, and Adelaide to kick delightedly in her mother's arms.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

“As you say,” madame retorted, correcting him, and deftly knitting an extra something into his name that boded him no good.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

88 Brother Albert Pike, whose opinion on masonic jurisprudence is entitled to the most respectful consideration, has announced a similar doctrine in one of his elaborate reports to the Grand Chapter of Arkansas.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Mr. Rochester continued, hardily and recklessly: “Bigamy is an ugly word!—I meant, however, to be a bigamist; but fate has out-manoeuvred me, or Providence has checked me,—perhaps the last.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Miss Raeburn, controlling herself absolutely, partly because of Aldous's manner, partly because of the servants, took her guest upstairs straightway, put her on the sofa in a cheerful sitting-room with a bright fire, and then, shrewdly guessing that she herself could not possibly be a congenial companion to the girl at such a moment, whatever might have happened or might be going to happen, she looked at her watch, said that she must go down to dinner, and promptly left her to the charge of a kind elderly maid, who was to do and get for her whatever she would.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Having finished this speech, he wanted to mount some of his most determined men on horseback to oppose the detachment then on 31 the plain; but in truth the commonalty would not suffer it to be done, and uttered against him many reproaches, calling him a traitor.
— from The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet, Vol. 02 [of 13] Containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy, of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English, their expulsion thence, and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in other countries by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

My respected chief,” he apostrophized Sir Austin, “combustibles are only the more dangerous for compression.
— from The Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete by George Meredith

Miss Ralston caught him as he wavered and put him in the nearest seat.
— from Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series by James Edmund Dunning

She doubts,—till a feeling of maidenly reserve constrains her at last, and the coveted trifle, with careful, painstaking fingers, is put with the rest, and the parcel is made complete, and the address is written with precision.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope

My Lords, permit me for one moment to drop my representative character here, and to speak to your Lordships only as a man of some experience in the world, and conversant with the affairs of men and with the characters of men.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

“We [Pg 303] have dealed with such an one,” the earl said, “as men have not dealed with tofore; we may rather call her a strong and constant man than a woman.”
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

After each talk with Mrs. Chippy Mrs. Robin came home all a-flutter.
— from The Tale of Reddy Woodpecker by Arthur Scott Bailey

I do remember, now I think of it, his telling us how he had met Roderick carrying home a baby, and the clumsy joke he made over it.
— from Inchbracken: The Story of a Fama Clamosa by Robert Cleland

In such cases we may admit the principle already suggested, that even the most reckless criticism has a kind 258 of value when it implies a genuine (even though a mistaken) taste.
— from Hours in a Library, Volume 2 New Edition, with Additions by Leslie Stephen