I felt pain; I wished to cry out, but an icy shiver ran through my veins and stifled my voice; I fell lifeless, and fancied myself killed.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It was my intention, now, to put my scheme in operation, and I resolved to make him feel the whole extent of the malice with which I was imbued.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

" Lying back on the sofa, she read the manuscript carefully through, making dashes here and there, and putting in many exclamation points, which looked like little balloons.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

He charges Mark Antony with insanity, writing rather to make men stare, than to be understood; and by way of sarcasm upon his depraved and fickle taste in the choice of words, he writes to him thus: “And are you yet in doubt, whether Cimber Annius or Veranius Flaccus be more proper for your imitation?
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

As soon as I got to Marseilles I conducted my niece to Madame Audibert’s, and sent Possano and my brother to the “Trieze Cantons” inn, bidding them observe the strictest silence with regard to me, for Madame d’Urfe had been awaiting me for three weeks, and I wished to be my own herald to her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

this rout is a very good one tho not the most derect rout, the most derect rout would be to proceed up the Missouri above Dearborns river and take a right hand road & fall on a South branch of the Cokatlarishkit R. and proceed down that river to the main road but the best rout would be from the falls of the Missouri by fort mountain and passing the N. extremity of that range of the Rocky Mountains which pass the Missouri at the pine Island rapid Course nearly S. W. and to the gap through which the great road passeds the dividing mountain the distance from the falls to this gap about 45 miles through a tolerable leavel plain on an old indian road.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I felt he’d seen right through me, but I went on playing my part.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

It was by this road that Montcalm had retired with his army, and the adventurers knew not
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

I don't think I exaggerated at all when I replied to my colleague that he was not behaving more rudely than authors of serious articles behave to one another.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When Woodhull had told his own story, in his own way, some were for raiding the Missouri detachment forthwith.
— from The Covered Wagon by Emerson Hough

"A man?" "Yes'm." "A tall man, very straight?" "He ain't so awful straight," returned the maid doubtfully.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham

“Who found—Mary?” “See here, Joe, I told you all I knowed once before,” replied the Mormon, testily.
— from The Rainbow Trail by Zane Grey

Only, on two nights Mr. Asquith had read the manuscript, and on two others the task had been discharged by Mr. Bryce.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 38, February, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

If you received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with your written explanation.
— from The Sovereignty of the Sea An Historical Account of the Claims of England to the Dominion of the British Seas, and of the Evolution of the Territorial Waters by Thomas Wemyss Fulton

The Gardiner told me as there was such a crowd of children on larst Bank Hollerday that there was hardly room to move about, tho' the Park is 80 hakers big; but as I am told that such a space wood hold about 80 thousand, quite cumferal, I thinks as he must have slitely xadgerated.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 30, 1890 by Various

As the kindergarten room generally is large, it enables the children who represent the man, the woman, the little boy, etc., to station themselves at some distance.
— from A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura Fry Kready

"The essential part of the treaty," said one of the French agents, "is, il faut de l'argent—il faut beaucoup d'argent ;" and to render the matter palatable, he told the Americans of other countries which had paid large sums to obtain peace, and reminded them of the irresistible power of France.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume II. by Walter Scott

“See,” he said in a clear voice to his monks, “how all is coming true that was revealed to me this night!
— from The Dragon of Wantley: His Tale by Owen Wister

Lady Byron was falsely accused of having ruined the man of his generation, and caused all his vices and crimes, and all their evil effects on society.
— from Lady Byron Vindicated A history of the Byron controversy from its beginning in 1816 to the present time by Harriet Beecher Stowe