The novice, seeing Milady in bed, was about to follow the example of the superior; but Milady stopped her.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

“His name,” said the cabman, “was Mr. Sherlock Holmes.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘What does Mr. Johnson say, Vincent?’ inquired a voice close to his ear; and, looking round, he found Mrs. Crummles and Miss Snevellicci herself standing behind him.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

“Well, then, Becky, we must stay here, where there’s water to drink.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

I was standing with Rachel beside the water, amusing the laughing baby in her arms with a twig of willow laden with golden catkins, when, greatly to my surprise, he entered the park, mounted on his costly black hunter, and crossed over the grass to meet me.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

O Son, in whom my Soul hath chief delight, Son of my bosom, Son who art alone
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

He was never put out by Strickland's rudeness; if it was merely sullen, he appeared not to notice it; if it was aggressive, he only chuckled.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

His wife gave him a look which invited him in; and, while he was coming round, added, “Now, dearest Emma, let me intreat you to say and look every thing that may set his heart at ease, and incline him to be satisfied with the match.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

If ever guilt lay on a writer’s head, and if malignity, slander, hypocrisy, and self-contradictory baseness can constitute guilt, I dare openly, and openly (please God!)
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The hot suns of many summers had blazed on the heath; the river Nile had overflowed and receded, overflowed and receded again and again; the seed had been sown and the harvests reaped; stars rose and set; years of plenty and years of famine had passed on; but the love of Jacob for Joseph in my text is overwhelmingly dramatic.
— from The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

She wondered if Miss Stackpole had come on account of her mother—whether she had heard of the American Corinne.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James

"But I should like him to come here, to see me; and then, if I find him to be what your father would approve, you may see him here; and we shall all have to explain things together, I fancy, to your father."
— from Stories That End Well by Octave Thanet

Lady Tilney, therefore, continually urged Lady Tenderden to the necessity of adopting the measures she had proposed; and the latter, having satisfied herself that no unpleasant responsibility was likely to attach to her, consented to fill her allotted part in the measure, and propose to Lady Glenmore to accompany her on a tour.
— from The Exclusives (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

One of the women, Mother Migneron, knew me; she had a pitchfork, and was very pale.
— from The Blockade of Phalsburg: An Episode of the End of the Empire by Erckmann-Chatrian

It was so hot and airless in there that Isobel was quite glad when Mr. Binks suggested they should adjourn to the garden, that he might show her the figureheads which stood among the flower-beds like a row of wooden statues.
— from Bosom Friends: A Seaside Story by Angela Brazil

A formidable fleet had been built and equipped, corn and military stores had been collected to a vast amount, and an army had gathered which, including camp followers, was variously estimated at from three to five millions.
— from Ten Great Events in History by James Johonnot