She knew she took a slight risk in doing so—she remembered the chemist's warning.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

But it took him a long time to get down-stairs, and a still longer to undo the fastenings, repenting (I dare say) and taken with fresh claps of fear at every second step and every bolt and bar.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

But here, immediately after him, however, came and went repeatedly, in due succession, President Russell, Governor Hunter, Governor Gore, General Brock, General Sheaffe, Sir Gordon Drummond, Sir Peregrine Maitland.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

As to the road in question, the choice of trees had rendered its direction somewhat capricious, but at the same time it facilitated the access to a large part of the Serpentine Peninsula.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

“It’s not worth talking about …” he muttered, and relapsed into determined silence.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I remember to have read in Diodorus Siculus 1 an Account of a very active little Animal, which I think he calls the Ichneumon , that makes it the whole Business of his Life to break the Eggs of the Crocodile, which he is always in search after.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

No doubt it's all right; I dare say it is.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

I imitate neither Manfred nor Anthony; but without words, protestations, or vows, my life has entwined itself with yours; you leave me, and you are right in doing so,—I repeat it, you are right; but in losing you, I lose my life.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Fond of riding, I dare say?"
— from Great Uncle Hoot-Toot by Mrs. Molesworth

He said that no man could desire more jolly or entertaining companions over a glass of “summut;” but that upon the road it was anything but desirable to meet them; there they were terrible, cursing and swearing, and thrusting the muzzles of their pistols into people’s mouths; and at this part of his locution the old man winked, and said, in a somewhat lower voice, that upon the whole they were right in doing so, and that when a person had once made up his mind to become a highwayman, his best policy was to go the whole hog, fearing nothing, but making everybody afraid of him; that people never thought of resisting a savage-faced, foul-mouthed highwayman, and if he were taken, were afraid to bear witness against him, lest he should get off and cut their throats some time or other upon the roads; whereas people would resist being robbed by a sneaking, pale-visaged rascal, and would swear bodily against him on the first opportunity,—adding, that Abershaw and Ferguson, two most awful fellows, had enjoyed a long career, whereas two disbanded officers of the army, who wished to rob a coach like gentlemen, had begged the passengers’ pardon, and talked of hard necessity, had been set upon by the passengers themselves, amongst whom were three women, pulled from their horses, conducted to Maidstone, and hanged with as little pity as such contemptible fellows deserved.
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

The rhetoric of the passage, with all its multiplied similitudes, fine as it is in itself, receives its dramatic significance by being put into the lips of Clytæmnestra.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus