And pressing his lips on the hand of Julie, who rushed into his arms, he extended his other hand to Emmanuel; then tearing himself from this abode of peace and happiness, he made a sign to Maximilian, who followed him passively, with the indifference which had been perceptible in him ever since the death of Valentine had so stunned him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Principia el hombre con un paseo hacia la pareja, como para invitarla; ella cede y le sigue; y así a los manejos de la música, ejecutan varias figuras en que, ya se retiran desdeñosos, ya se buscan y se acercan; pero al tiempo de encontrarse la mujer da una media vuelta
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Now look back to the time when Colonel Herncastle came to England, and when you were concerned in the plan he adopted to preserve his life.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Thaddeus was unmoved; leaning on his elbow, he kept silent, frowned, and puckered his lips: so much the more did he confuse and amaze Telimena.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

He replied that he could not tell with any degree of accuracy; that all the sick and weak had been sent to Nashville while we were about Fort Henry; that Floyd and Pillow had left during the night, taking many men with them; and that Forrest, and probably others, had also escaped during the preceding night: the number of casualties he could not tell; but he said I would not find fewer than 12,000, nor more than 15,
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He played high, lost and won large sums of money, and at last became accustomed to the extravagant life that young men lead in Paris.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Their attainment of the crown presents itself to her, perhaps has long presented itself, as something so glorious, and she has fixed her will upon it so completely, that for the time she sees the enterprise in no other light than that of its greatness.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

He appeared to have passed his life in always getting up into mountains and fighting somebody; and a bard whose name sounded like Crumlinwallinwer had sung his praises in a piece which was called, as nearly as I could catch it, Mewlinnwillinwodd.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He ventured to differ, however, about the Corinthian columns which were to cling like leeches to the frames of the bow windows, saying that, for his part, he liked to relieve the facade by a bit of decoration.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

His cheek, with the soft skin reddened, she thought, with desire of her person, and Emma felt an invincible longing to press her lips to it.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

The Prince-Consort's death-bed made a very close tie between the Queen and the Princess Alice, who herself had a full share of womanly sorrow in her comparatively short life, and the tone of perfect self-abnegation which pervades her letters is very touching.
— from Queen Victoria Story of Her Life and Reign, 1819-1901 by Anonymous

At that our uncle seemed yet more moved; and after he had done what he could to ease my pain, he left me with Roger, and bid Gaston follow him to his own tent.
— from In the Days of Chivalry: A Tale of the Times of the Black Prince by Evelyn Everett-Green

For Hoang-ti, nearly five thousand years ago, taught men to make good vessels of baked clay; and in his time all potters had learned to know the God of Oven-fires, and turned their wheels to the murmuring of prayer.
— from Some Chinese Ghosts by Lafcadio Hearn

And weeping softly, she took his head in her hands, pressed her lips to his, and then fell back in her seat with eyes distended, maddened with the joy of that kiss.
— from The Torrent (Entre Naranjos) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

Everyone had gone to bed on the previous night before Old Paul had let himself into the house; and the woman told herself that she must seek some advice, before the children or Anthony Ditchburn knew what had happened.
— from Jimmy Quixote: A Novel by Tom Gallon

Yes, I couldn't believe the tales against him, when he had proved his love for Marion by such a big act of generosity.
— from Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The Moth and the Flame by Clyde Fitch

Of course Byron's sufferings have had their share of attention, though, remembering his enormous popularity, the better poets have left to the more gullible rhymsters the echo of his tirades against persecution,
— from The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years by Elizabeth Atkins

There was a sensation among the ducks, but not the panic Pete had looked for.
— from On Your Mark! A Story of College Life and Athletics by Ralph Henry Barbour

Accompanied by his assistant, S. Trigg, he proceeded up the river finding, thanks to the wet season that had preceded him, luxuriant grass and ample supplies of water.
— from The Explorers of Australia and their Life-work by Ernest Favenc