Although the countenances, and more especially the gestures, of orangs and chimpanzees are in some respects highly expressive, I doubt whether on the whole they are so expressive as those of some other kinds of monkeys.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

During the six years which had passed since Noirtier first fell into this sad state, Valentine’s powers of invention had been too often put to the test not to render her expert in devising expedients for gaining a knowledge of his wishes, and the constant practice had so perfected her in the art that she guessed the old man’s meaning as quickly as if he himself had been able to seek for what he wanted.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

On his return journey to the Rhine he experienced immediate Divine protection, even in a more striking manner.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Johnson : 'Sir, he values a new guinea more than an old friend.' One can hardly imagine anything more offensive—unless it were the story which follows it: Col also told us that the same person having come up with a serjeant and twenty men, working on the high road, he entered into discourse with the serjeant and then gave him sixpence for the men to drink.
— from Boswell the Biographer by George Mallory

"I declare," said she, rubbing her eyes, "I don't get any peace of my life.
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

Apollonius is said to have assisted Vespasian in his struggle for the throne of the Cæsars; afterwards, when accused of raising an insurrection against Domitian, and when he had given himself up voluntarily to the imperial tribunal at Rome, he escaped impending destruction by the exertion of his superhuman art.
— from The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams

In the meanwhile, the period limited for the exchange of ratifications having expired, I deemed it expedient, in consequence of the death of the charge d'affaires, to send a special agent to Central America to close the affairs of our mission there and to arrange with the Government an extension of the time for the exchange of ratifications.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

The lifeless and deliberate way in which it went on made it the 1st of September when Sumner and Franklin reached Centreville, and the second battle of Bull Run had ended in defeat on the evening before.
— from Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 1: April 1861-November 1863 by Jacob D. (Jacob Dolson) Cox

One of these, indeed, a wounded bull, charged a canoe, crushed it in its huge jaws and killed the rower, how exactly I do not know, for his body was never found.
— from She and Allan by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

To obey a rude husband even is duty and comfort; how sad When, instead, a hostile fate drives her out of her sphere!
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

[17] Bent and broken by the unanswerable accusations of what seemed a conscience in human shape, Ottila had sunk down before him with an abandonment as native to her as the indomitable will which still refused to relinquish hope even in despair.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

The American raised his eyebrows in disbelief.
— from Ranson's Folly by Richard Harding Davis

H2 anchor SOLON SOLON, as Hermippus writes, when his father had ruined his estate in doing benefits and kindnesses to other men, though he had friends enough that were willing to contribute to his relief, yet was ashamed to be beholden to others, since he was descended from a family who were accustomed to do kindnesses rather than receive them; and therefore applied himself to merchandise in his youth; though others assure us that he traveled rather to get learning and experience than to make money.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch