He pressed her very slightly, and she said more.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

She therefore altered her resolution; and, having hired horses to go a week's journey a way which she did not intend to travel, she again set forward after a light refreshment, contrary to the desire and earnest entreaties of her maid, and to the no less vehement remonstrances of Mrs Whitefield, who, from good breeding, or perhaps from good nature (for the poor young lady appeared much fatigued), pressed her very heartily to stay that evening at Gloucester.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Porphyry, his views of theurgy, i. 394 , etc., 396 , etc.; epistle of, to Anebo, 397 , etc.; as to how the soul is purified, 413 ; refused to recognise Christ, 414 ; vacillation of, between the confession of the true God and the worship of demons, 418 ; the impiety of, 419 ; so blind as not to recognise the true wisdom, 422 ; his emendations of Platonism, 426 , etc.; his ignorance of the universal way of the soul's deliverance, 430 , etc.; abjured the opinion that souls constantly pass away and return in cycles, 511 ; his notion that the soul must be separated from the body in order to be happy, demolished by Plato, 531 , etc.; the conflicting opinions of Plato and, if united, might have led to the truth, 532 , 533 ; his account of the responses of the oracles of the gods concerning Christ, ii.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

O-Morphi pleased her very much, and her history, which I related, struck her as very curious.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Thou art speaking but sooth, Rebecca,” said Isaac, giving way to these weighty arguments—“it were an offending of Heaven to betray the secrets of the blessed Miriam; for the good which Heaven giveth, is not rashly to be squandered upon others, whether it be talents of gold and shekels of silver, or whether it be the secret mysteries of a wise physician—assuredly they should be preserved to those to whom Providence hath vouchsafed them.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

And perfect it is because he that has it is able to practise his virtue towards his neighbour and not merely on himself; I mean, there are many who can practise virtue in the regulation of their own personal conduct who are wholly unable to do it in transactions with 130a] their neighbour.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

PUCK Here, villain; drawn and ready.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Perhaps also some instinct of dignity and self-respect urged her to learn something of the world before entering the novitiate to pronounce her vows.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

As he seemed to be in no hurry in making his selection, Q—— determined to make him useful, in the meantime, in promoting his views with respect to others.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

volō , wish , nōlō , won’t , and mālō , prefer , have velle-m , nōlle-m , and mālle-m respectively ( 166, 8 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Your mother's people, her Vavasour relations at Cardiff—did not seem to me to be very respectable, though her father was a well-educated man for his position.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

Well, I make no doubt, Ursula, that you are quite as good as she, and she as her namesake of ancient Rome; but there is a mystery in this same virtue, Ursula, which I cannot fathom; how a thief and a liar should be able, or indeed willing, to preserve her virtue is what I don’t understand.
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

He bent his long, thin body as he pressed his violin to his knee, and his reddish hair fell over his face.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

“There is also yet another historical reason given why the Red Cross of St. George should be so often adopted in England; for it is related, that when Robert, Duke of Normandy, the son of our King William I., was prosecuting his victories against the Turks, and laying siege to the famous City of Antioch, A. D. 1098, it was almost relieved by a considerable army of Saracens.
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

"But with the swords of her brave—" "No swords here, if you please," said Mr. Love, putting his vast hands on the Pole's shoulder, and sinking him forcibly down into the circle now formed.
— from Night and Morning, Volume 3 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

On making the necessary inquiry into the state of his affairs, it appeared that, not having a superabundance of visible means for his support, his landlord, on hearing that he had missed drawing the high prize, had very unkindly seized upon his clothes for his board, and shut him up so that he could earn nothing to pay the balance.
— from Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

At about the time when Harvey made known his discovery Bacon was publishing his views of the laws of transmission and reflection of sound.
— from The Evil Eye, Thanatology, and Other Essays by Roswell Park

He saw a good chance for his journal in the event, and an opportunity for a scandalous article, for which he expected Christophe to provide him with material if he did not write it himself; for he thought that after such an explosion the Court musician would put his very considerable political talents and his no less considerable little tit-bits of secret information about the Court at the service of "the cause."
— from Jean-Christophe, Volume I by Romain Rolland

Secretly he held Vaughan in respect; and he would have postponed his visit to Queen's Square had he foreseen that that gentleman would detect him.
— from Chippinge Borough by Stanley John Weyman