Right so Sir Pelleas unarmed himself, and went unto his bed making marvellous dole and sorrow.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Of course I'm very glad to have him amused, but I happen to know that she has bled him rather severely since she's been here, and she is so keen about going to fetch him that I fancy she must have got a lot more bills this morning.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

And, as I traveled farther and farther, exploring the rich, sweet soul of her, my sense of pleasant friendship became but a broad foundation for such height, such breadth, such interlocked combination of feeling as left me fairly blinded with the wonder of it.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

'And I yielded to the right; simply saying that you gave me pain by insisting upon it,' she replied, proudly.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

With the present stem in a nasalized root followed by -o | e- ( 831 ). findō , split apart findere -fidī , rarely fidī fissus scindō , rend scindere -scidī , rarely scidī scissus 935.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Leaning with the rock, they seemed to hesitate a moment, and then rock and trees and grass and bushes, with a rushing sound, slipped right away from the face of the cutting and fell on the line with a blundering crash that could have been heard half a mile off.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

We have perceived from your conversation, that wisdom at this day is so far extinguished or infatuated, that nothing at all is known concerning the relative state of the life of men and of beasts; and hence it is that the state of the life of man after death is not known: but those who are capable of knowing this, and yet are not willing, and in consequence deny it, as many Christians do, may fitly be compared to such as are found in forests: not that they are rendered so stupid from a want of instruction, but that they have rendered themselves so by the fallacies of the senses, which are the darkness of truths." 153.*
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

Nevertheless, both in the enactment and in the enforcement of law the Federal Government within its restricted sphere should set an example to the State governments, especially in a matter so vital as this affecting labor.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

Against this proposal a fat lady, who, if equity ruled stagecoaches, should have paid for two places instead of one, opposed her veto most vehemently, declaring that she would get out and take a chaise, and make the coachman pay, if any more than the legal proportion of passengers was admitted into the favoured vehicle in which she travelled.
— from Charles Tyrrell; or, The Bitter Blood. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

In this respect such shooting requires good judgment.
— from The Killer by Stewart Edward White

"You will find that the place is rough, sir," says Mr. Snagsby, walking deferentially in the road, and leaving the narrow pavement to the lawyer; "and the party is very rough.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

For some reason she seemed afraid of this one.
— from God's Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman

I felt then such release, such serenity as I can compare to no mortal delight I have ever known.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

After writing to you, out of curiosity I glanced at the early chapters in my "Geology of South America," and the areas of elevation on the E. and W. coasts are so vast, and proofs of many successive periods of rest so striking, that the evidence becomes to my mind striking.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

That they were taken by the military power, which rose so suddenly in China after the fall of the republic, and which wrested Manchuria and Korea from Russia and Japan, and also absorbed the Philippines, is quite within the range of possibility.
— from The Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs