I missed the refreshing and luxurious sense, induced by the night-gown, of being undressed, emancipated, set free from restraints and trammels.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

I can swaller a thirteenth of the yarn, if you can worry down the rest.' Ed got up mad and said they could all go to some place which he ripped out pretty savage, and then walked off aft cussing to himself, and they yelling and jeering at him, and roaring and laughing so you could hear them a mile.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

[609] "With reverence," as Lang says ( The Secret of the Totem , p. 111).
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

M. Renan also ( Langues Sémitiques III.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Then, after resting a little, she took her brother's hand and went on in a weak, toneless voice: "How kind you are, Alyosha! . . .
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then he realised (in some odd way) that the silence was rather a living silence than a dead one.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

In high Lyrnessus, and in Troy, he held Two palaces, and was from each expell’d: Of all the mighty man, the last remains A little spot of foreign earth contains.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Many of the doors which had been close shut when the crowd went down the High Street were partially open as Daniel slowly returned; and light streamed from them on the otherwise dark road.
— from Mrs. Gaskell by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

it seems evident that such fulsom Ingredients of which they are compounded, are more apt to spoil a weak than recover a lost Stomach, and consequently not the fittest Medicines Consumptive Persons may have recourse to: For how many by woful Experience have found the constant and frequent use of such Anti-Stomachics led them from one Degree of this Malady to another, ’till their decaying Appetite hath been quite overthrown, (and consequently their hectic Heat inflamed) their Bodies so emaciated, as to render them uncapable of necessary Evacuations, and they themselves at last given over to a Milk Diet, Asses Milk, some Chalibeate Mineral Waters, or such like Liquids, to which the poor distressed Stomach ecchoes aloud, Miserable Comforters all !
— from A Collection of Chirurgical Tracts by William Beckett

He, for one, was of the opinion that this was a number amply sufficient to justify the requiring at least some information on the subject, either as to the ports capable of being defended by them, or their general capability of yielding defence to the United States.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

There was an interval while the letter was read, and Lucas stood and fidgeted, with a sense that he was intrusive and petty and undesired.
— from The Second Class Passenger: Fifteen Stories by Perceval Gibbon

THE CALF'S-HEAD CLUB.—When the restoration of Charles II. took the strait waistcoat off the minds and morose religion of the Commonwealth period, and gave a loose rein to the long-compressed spirits of the people, there still remained a large section of society wedded to the former state of things.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

He saw it always, like the hero of The Sense of the Past , under the charm ... of the queer, incomparable London light—unless one frankly loved it rather as London shade—which he had repeatedly noted as so strange as to be at its finest sinister."
— from Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd

I believe it has required a long series of accepted observations for us to have arrived at this idea, now so natural in appearance, that the modifications produced within our nervous system are the only states of which we can have a direct consciousness; and as experimental demonstration is always limited, there can be no absolute certainty that things never happen otherwise, that we never go outside ourselves, and that neither our consciousness nor our nervous influx can exteriorise itself, shoot beyond our material
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet

The young Sidonia ‘obtained, at an early age, that experience of refined and luxurious society which is a necessary part of a finished education.
— from The Earl of Beaconsfield by James Anthony Froude

In this strain were we talking when he re-entered the room, a little sooner than we had expected to see him.
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu