On the spot the officers set off in pursuit of her; she was alarmed, and feeling still more unwell, ran up the staircase home.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

If my urgent request upon this subject had been complied with, the disaster which has befallen your brothers would not have occurred.
— from My Story by Anson Mills

There was a long silence between the two men, until Robbie, unable to support it any longer, broke in again with, “I took it, but I flung it into the next beck.”
— from The Shadow of a Crime: A Cumbrian Romance by Caine, Hall, Sir

5275 Let no one object that such a recitation soon becomes mechanical 5276 ; the prayers, phrases and words which it buries deep in the mind, even wandering, necessarily become fixed inhabitants in it, and hence occult and stirring powers banded together which encompass the intellect and lay siege to the will, which, in the subterranean regions of the soul, gradually extend or fortify their silent occupation of the place, which insensibly operate on the man without his being aware of it, and which, at critical moments, unexpectedly rise up to steady his footsteps or to save him from temptation.
— from The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Hippolyte Taine

Then May, usually rather unsusceptible to such quiet demonstrations of affection, put her hand in her sister's and said: "Pauline, you are a good deal of a dear!"
— from A Venetian June by Anna Fuller