"Remain a moment, Esther," said he, "You were in my thoughts."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

He looked round upon them for a moment in a dramatic pause, and then said in solemn tones, ‘A tax upon the worthless rich , and more especially’ (yet louder) ‘upon the alien rich and more especially still’ (his voice now booming like a hammering of drums) ‘upon the alien rich who stand idle fattening upon the revenues of the State, this I say....’
— from The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc

Dutchy listened, his cheeks getting redder and redder as MacDonald, exaggerating some hundredfold, suavely rubbed it in.
— from On the Iron at Big Cloud by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

Henrietta had not read a book which required any mental exertion since her dozen chapters of "I Promessi Sposi," fifteen years ago.
— from The Third Miss Symons by F. M. (Flora Macdonald) Mayor

But Lord William Bentinck had come out bound hand and foot to economy, social reform, and missionary effort, so he spent his years in adding up and subtracting, in framing laws, such as that against suttee , and the forfeiture which, under Hindu law, followed on conversion to a different faith.
— from India Through the Ages: A Popular and Picturesque History of Hindustan by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Never had these consoling words sounded more solemn than when they rang above the remains of Adelaide Cumberland, in this home where she had reigned as mistress ever since her seventeenth year.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

This I did three several times, stopping at each turn, as if to rest or to reflect; and making each succeeding halt longer than the one that had preceded it.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper