It was not the plague that visited our little boy so roughly; but she could not listen to my assurances; apprehension deprived her of judgment and reflection; every slight convulsion of her child's features shook her frame —if he moved, she dreaded the instant crisis; if he remained still, she saw death in his torpor, and the cloud on her brow darkened.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

While I was resting ever so comfortably on a rampart, and cooling my baking head in the delicious breeze, an officious guide belonging to another party came up and said: “Senor, that high hill yonder is called the Queen’s Chair—” “Sir, I am a helpless orphan in a foreign land.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

" Winston, totally unconscious that he had thus achieved an enviable reputation in certain rather exclusive social circles of San Juan, proceeded straight to the hotel, pausing merely a moment in the wash-room to make himself a trifle more presentable, tramped up the stairs, and rapped briskly at Miss Norvell's door.
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

In the same manner as for the observant traveller, the strange wildness of nature is so attractive in physical nature—thus, and for the same reason, every soul capable of enthusiasm finds even in the regrettable anarchy found in the moral world a source of singular pleasure.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

I sometimes fancy that when I'm king, And my gallant courtiers form a ring, Each so careless of power and pelf, Each so thoughtful for all but self, I'd give the best on his bended knee— Yes, barter them all, for the loyalty Of Little Giffin of Tennessee.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

CHAPTER XXVI 'WHEN ROGUES——' 'I have put out the fire, Sir Rupert,' Ericson said composedly, 'or, rather, I have shown your men how to do it.
— from The Dictator by Justin McCarthy

It is very interesting that under condition of sub-tonicity diverse expressions of physio­logic­al reaction exhibit similar change of sign of normal response.
— from Life Movements in Plants, Volume I by Jagadis Chandra Bose

Et s'est resjouy le peuple de sa departye, pensant qu'elle fut en liberté, et passant par devant la Maison des Stillyards ilz tirerent trois coups d'artillerie en signe d'allegrie, que la reyne et son conseil ont prins a desplaisir et regret, et estimons que l'on en fera demonstration.
— from The Reign of Mary Tudor by James Anthony Froude