There have been wicked women before her time, Lizzie, who have used honest men who loved them as a means of saving their characters, and I'm sorely afraid this Mrs. Catherick is as wicked as the worst of them.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Many sleepless nights did she pass amidst those horrors of fancy, starting at every noise, and sweating with dreary apprehension, yet ashamed to own her fears, or solicit the comfort of a bedfellow, lest she should incur the ridicule and censure of her father's wife; and what rendered this disposition the more irksome, was the solitary situation of her chamber, that stood at the end of a long gallery scarce within hearing of any other inhabited part of the house.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

She ascertained from me in a few words what it was all about, comforted Dora, and gradually convinced her that I was not a labourer—from my manner of stating the case I believe Dora concluded that I was a navigator, and went balancing myself up and down a plank all day with a wheelbarrow—and so brought us together in peace.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

So I fell to reading it, and it is by way of stating the case between S. Pepys and J. Creed most excellently writ, both showing his stoutness and yet willingness to peace, reproaching me yet flattering me again, and in a word in as good a manner as I think the world could have wrote, and indeed put me to a greater stand than ever I thought I could have been in this matter.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The feel of the hard third-class cushions and the smell of stale tobacco cheered me up wonderfully.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Thence to the Fishery in Thames Street, and there several good discourses about the letting of the Lotterys, and, among others, one Sir Thomas Clifford, whom yet I knew not, do speak very well and neatly.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Her face had taken on a look of such tragic courage that he felt like bowing himself down at her feet.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

90 ‘O Sun that clearest every troubled sight, So charmed am I by thy resolving speech, Doubt yields me joy no less than knowing right.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Yes,” he went on, seeing the colonel look up in some wonder, “the whole of this tale turns on a black coat.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"Over Death Sea on a bridge of silver The child to his Father's arms had passed!
— from Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

We too swear To die, or save the country.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“It is a maxim of all sound business that a thing should be sold as often as possible, and it was clear that I now had an opportunity of selling this charming creature for the third time.
— from The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc

In a similar way boys often manifest great interest in machinery in their youth, and afterward, if given the right opportunities, show their constructive ability in the organization of business enterprises and the successful devising of plans and schemes for pushing these enterprises to success.
— from Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life by Arthur Newcomb

I then went to my room over the stables, the other stablemen being also upstairs, and to my surprise, after half an hour or three-quarters of an hour later, her ladyship, who had been to the garden, called me and the other stablemen to come and help Kitty up, as she was lying 'cast' [1] in her box.
— from Telepathy, Genuine and Fraudulent by W. W. (William Wortley) Baggally

Lucie could hear snatches of singing, the chant which fairly rings from the stones and walls of Lourdes.
— from Rough-Hewn by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

He at once supported the Celtic party in Brittany as he had supported the Flemish party in Flanders.
— from The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by T. F. (Thomas Frederick) Tout

They had come into the house, which was their Open Sesame to college, in twos and threes.
— from Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus by Josephine Chase