He stood, blanched with terror and trembling violently, with his right arm clutching his left, where that had collided with the magnet.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Amelia did not dare to look at Rebecca's pale face and burning eyes, but she dropt the letter into her friend's lap; and got up, and went upstairs to her room, and cried her little heart out.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Let him see you first, Phoebe; for you are young and rosy, and cannot help letting a smile break out whether or no.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Both Randolph and Constance had “Liberty and a Living” in mind when they planned it, and although it did not precisely repeat that charming little domicile, yet it was built in much the same style.
— from The Gentle Art of Cooking Wives by Elizabeth Strong Worthington

If he had spoken outright, she might have answered him; but the simple monosyllable, implying a world of restrained avowal, confronted her like a wall, before which she stood silent.
— from Other Things Being Equal by Emma Wolf

Alden J. Buthen, “Kansas City Journal”; Morrison Mumford, “Kansas City Times”; George W. Warder, John Taylor, Smith & Rieger, Holman & French, Robert Keith, Cady & Olmstead, D. Austin, George H. Conover, M. H. Shepard, W. B. Wright, John H. Worth, Woolf Bros., C. J. Waples, John Cutt, John Walmsley, John Sorg, J. V. C. Kames, Jos. Cahn, H. N. Eps, Milton Moore, R. O. Boggers, Gardiner Lathrop, B. R. Conklin, W. R. Nelson, Homer Reed, Albert C. Hasty, L. E. Irwin, The Irwin & Eaton Ckg.
— from Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations by Joseph Hatton

Randolph's familiarity with Guarini is evident throughout, and there is at least one distinct reminiscence, namely Thestylis' humorous expansion of Corisca's remark about changing her lovers like her clothes: Other Nymphs Have their varietie of loves, for every gowne, Nay, every petticote; I have only one, The poore foole Mopsus!
— from Pastoral Poetry & Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by W. W. (Walter Wilson) Greg

The fever had reached a consistent high level, lending him a singular buoyancy of body and of spirit, but his reason was gone.
— from Terry A Tale of the Hill People by Charles Goff Thomson

she is, if the breakin’ av me bones, or the lettin’ av me blood’s what’ll set all right at Champak Hill, let her mind be aisy—aw yis!”
— from A Romany of the Snows, Complete Being a Continuation of the Personal Histories of "Pierre and His People" and the Last Existing Records of Pretty Pierre by Gilbert Parker

He did not return and came home late at night.
— from Petty Troubles of Married Life, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

It was only when he thought of the public opinion of his little world, of some other occupation more befitting his education, of the vast change from his late life of ease and luxury to this of daily labor with a clerk's pay, that he had hours of revolt and cursed his luck.
— from The Golden House by Charles Dudley Warner

With this load lifted from her mind Jerry's recovery was rapid, and when the autumnal suns were just beginning to tinge the woodbine on the Tramp House and the maples in the park woods with scarlet she took her accustomed seat in Arthur's room and commenced her lessons again with Maude, who had missed her sadly, and who would have gone to see her every day during her sickness, if her mother had permitted it.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

"Maybe he belonged to that man," suggested Ruth, "and came here looking for him.
— from The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays by Laura Lee Hope