The Jew having allowed him to ring out his alarm, condoled his misfortune, and gravely counselled the young lady to wean her affections from such an unworthy object, for he supposed her favourite was a man of no principle, or liberal endowments, otherwise her father would not exclaim so bitterly against her conduct.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

With the red of her cheeks and the red of her lips she had something of the look of Lorenzo Lotto's lovely ladies, except for a certain sharp slenderness, a slenderness which came, I was to learn later, from an utter indifference to the claims of appetite.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

The time of the two parties uniting in the Octagon Room being correctly adjusted, Catherine was then left to the luxury of a raised, restless, and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho, lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner, incapable of soothing Mrs. Allen's fears on the delay of an expected dressmaker, and having only one minute in sixty to bestow even on the reflection of her own felicity, in being already engaged for the evening.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

185 When now the rage of hunger was removed, Nestor, in each persuasive art approved, The sage whose counsels long had sway'd the rest, In words like these his prudent thought express'd: "How dear, O kings!
— from The Iliad by Homer

Vauquer should regard the increased regularity of her boarder’s habits with complacency, when those little excursions of his had been so much to her interest.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Bagdad, the seat of the caliphs and the relation of his embassy might have been curious and instructive.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

She stopped me, however, by putting her fingers in her ears at the first words I uttered, and then lying down on the mat with her face against the flags; nor could either Warren or the cook root her from that position: she was allowed to lie, therefore, till she chose to rise of her own accord.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I must never go to the garden without a heavy stick or a corn-knife; she had killed a good many rattlers on her way back and forth.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

In a Hindu myth, Dhrubo, an infant devotee, passed much time in a jungle, surrounded by ferocious beasts, in devotional exercises of such extraordinary merit that Vishnu erected a new heaven for him as the reward of his piety.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

It will be impossible to give any connected account of the different journeys taken by Harriet for the rescue of her people, as she herself has no idea of the dates connected with them, or of the order in which they were made.
— from Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman by Sarah H. (Sarah Hopkins) Bradford

nce, absented himself from her cottage at such season and for such length of time as he chose, and seemed to consider, although maintaining towards her every possible degree of respect and kindness, that the control and responsibility of his actions rested on himself alone.
— from Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series by Walter Scott

From such allurements, however, as from all else, the mourner turned only the more deeply to cherish the memory of the dead; and it was a touching and holy sight to mark the mingled excess of melancholy and fondness with which he watched over that treasure in whose young beauty and guileless heart his departed Isabel had yet left the resemblance of her features and her love.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

She looked so capable of doing it that the woman was startled and actually offended into a return of her senses.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Affiant says that when said Agnes Barrett, alias Madame Barette, gave affiant her clothes, affiant said that if she did not give her the rest of her things she would go to a detective.
— from Tragedies of the White Slave by H. M. Lytle

I inquired, my eye running over him.
— from Raffles: Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

summer days that followed the Indian mêlée were always counted by Fred as among the richest of his life.
— from Wild Roses: A Tale of the Rockies by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

The story of this duel, which did not come off, has been quite fully told elsewhere, both by Mark Twain and the present writer; but the following letter—a revelation of his inner feelings in the matter of his offense—has never before been published.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1853-1866) by Mark Twain

Judgment had come to another of the gangsters, and the criminologist was pleased at the diminution in the ranks of his opponent.
— from The Voice on the Wire by Eustace Hale Ball