The two enemies were still on the very breach of a quarrel; but down they sat, one upon each side of the peat fire, with a mighty show of politeness.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

"I am not quite broken down yet," she said.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

So my lady sat down with me half an hour, and told me, that her brother had carried her a fine airing, and had quite charmed her with his kind treatment of her; and had much confirmed her in the good opinion she had begun to entertain of my discreet and obliging behaviour: But, continued she, when he would make me visit, without intending to stay, my old neighbours, (for, said she, Lady Jones being nearest, we visited her first; and she scraped all the rest of the company together,) they were all so full of your praises, that I was quite borne down; and, truly, it was Saul among the prophets!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

To be sure, in her quiet black dress, she was a contrast to Edith, dancing in her white crape mourning, and long floating golden hair, all softness and glitter.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Swifter, ye doomed lame Twelve: speed ere they can arm; gain the Woods of Quimper before day, and lie squatted there!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

[2861] Qui blandiendo dulce nutrivit malum, Soro recusat ferre quod subiit jugum.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

One could answer such a question beautifully, doubtless, if one could do so subtle, if not so monstrous, a thing as to write the history of the growth of one’s imagination.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Mrs. Hsüeh thereupon bade the servants fetch some wine of the best quality; but dame Li came forward and remonstrated.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“Like most nations dwelling near the sea, the Malays have their mermaids, of which the dugong is the probable origin.—J.I.A., i. 9.”—Quoted by Denys, Dict.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Jesus, Fons vitalis es: Sumam quæ benigne des: Vive mi in pectore, Fons Aeternat Domine!
— from The Dying Indian's Dream: A Poem by Silas Tertius Rand

But at this time the Sempronian army, commanded by Cneius Cornelius the quaestor, being descried at a distance, excited alarm in both parties equally, lest those who were approaching should be fresh enemies.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

And all the farm grows quiet by degrees.
— from The Square Book of Animals by Arthur Waugh

Hence one readily deduces that a simple, quiet, but direct, earnest address; a straightforward, unartificial honest manner, without tricks of oratory, is the most effective method of lodging truth in the minds of one's hearers.
— from The Young Man and the World by Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah) Beveridge

The conviction that he was thus strange to her filled her with despondency, and illustrated quite beyond doubt the infinite loneliness of human beings.
— from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

Suddenly Strubell turned to the youth and said: “Nick, I guess you had better take a look at the animals; Bell may have some friends around; if you get sight of any, don’t bother to ask questions, but drop them at the first shot.”
— from Across Texas by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Her heart smote her for the misery she had inflicted on one who seemed quite broken down.
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

Pierre could not see the Quirinal but divined it to be behind him, and could picture its long facade shutting off part of the sky.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

A triple fire of love to God, of the people to the young pastor, and of his young heart to them began its glow, which paled not until after fifty years of beacon glory it was quenched by death.
— from John Chambers, Servant of Christ and Master of Hearts, and His Ministry in Philadelphia by William Elliot Griffis