Dumont d'Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to credit the reports of low-class journals, decided to follow Dillon's track.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Having made various ineffective attempts to fit the parcel (which was some two feet square) into the crown thereof, Newman took it under his arm, and after putting on his fingerless gloves with great precision and nicety, keeping his eyes fixed upon Mr. Ralph Nickleby all the time, he adjusted his hat upon his head with as much care, real or pretended, as if it were a bran-new one of the most expensive quality, and at last departed on his errand.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, Hath left me, and I desperate now approve Desire is death, which physic did except.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

My love is as a fever longing still, For that which longer nurseth the disease, Feeding on that which doth preserve the ill, Th’ uncertain sickly appetite to please: My reason the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept Hath left me, and I desperate now approve, Desire is death, which physic did except.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

With a degree of horror, that almost deprived her of sense, she now believed she looked upon a murderer; all the recollected behaviour of Laurentini seemed to confirm the supposition, yet Emily was still lost in a labyrinth of perplexities, and, not knowing how to ask the questions, which might lead to truth, she could only hint them in broken sentences.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Much perturbed, and not knowing how to act in face of what the Emperor had revealed to me, I was turning from the window back to my writing-table, when one of the English footmen entered with a card.
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux

Germany, it is true, has produced one very great man, the monk who fought the Pope, and nearly knocked him down; but this man his countrymen—a telling fact—affect to despise, and, of course, the Anglo-Germanists: the father of Anglo-Germanism was very fond of inveighing against Luther.
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

"Hemmed in, I one time never thought To die in British land, Nor see my noble prince again, Nor kiss his royal hand.
— from The Desultory Man Collection of Ancient and Modern British Novels and Romances. Vol. CXLVII. by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Amazing thought—you might jog along all your life at the side of a person and never know him half so well as someone you met m a tense episode, like that of the immaculate Cutty crossing the fire escape with Two-Hawks on his shoulders!
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

"It hain't ended," sez she, "it only took place a month ago and she has got her grit up and won't pay; and no knowin' how it will end; she lays there amoulderin'.
— from Samantha on the Woman Question by Marietta Holley

For Dick, in his joy, had fallen against her in the passage and nearly knocked her hat off; then he seized her by the arm, and, fixing her with a gaze of exaggerated keenness, demanded in melodramatic tones, but too low for Mrs. Lorton to hear: "What means this sudden and strange return of the interesting stranger? Speak, girl!
— from Nell, of Shorne Mills; or, One Heart's Burden by Charles Garvice

Getting down into the compartment was the worst part, just putting the ladder into place and not knowing how badly hurt she was.
— from Space Station 1 by Frank Belknap Long

Like so many of Russia's distinguished men, both in the past and in the present, Alexis Nikolaievitch Kuropatkin has owed his rise rather to merit than to influence.
— from The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East by Sydney Tyler

My reason, the physician to my love, Angry that his prescriptions are not kept Has left me.
— from Toward the Gulf by Edgar Lee Masters

"A survival of barbarism," said I. "What is the veil but a relic of marriage by barter, when the man bought a pig in a poke and never knew his luck till he unveiled his bride?
— from Jaffery by William John Locke