Not a soul knew to whom it belonged, he said; and his money and time being both limited, he thought it better to take it home with him at once, than run into vain expenses there: because he was determined he would not leave it as he found it.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The youngest prince, carrying the king’s sabre, walked beside him; I was on the other side, and his Majesty often turned towards me to point out any striking object, and trying to read in my face what I thought of the effect produced on the people by his appearance.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

Aramis swallowed a hasty mouthful, gulped a glass of wine and changed his clothes.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"Jo wanted me to come, and tell her how you looked, so I did;" answered Laurie, without turning his eyes upon her, though he half smiled at her maternal tone.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The science of war has been lost and revived with the arts of peace; but his campaigns are not illustrated by any siege or battle of singular difficulty and success; and he might behold, with envy, the Saracen trophies of his grandfather.
— 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

Much of their talke about the Dutch coming on shore, which they believe they may some of them have been and steal sheep, and speak all in reproach of them in whose hands the fleete is; but, Lord helpe him, there is something will hinder him and all the world in going to sea, which is want of victuals; for we have not wherewith to answer our service; and how much better it would have been if the Duke’s advice had been taken for the fleete to have gone presently out; but, God helpe the King!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

‘Yes, take him with you, Maurice,’ said Albinia, ‘he must see William.’
— from The Young Step-Mother; Or, A Chronicle of Mistakes by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

It's made me sick at heart, Masters.
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

Her nose was small, and her mouth would be called ordinary; but when it was about to speak, it quivered delicately with the rising emotion, and varied its expression according to the passion of her discourse.
— from The American Quarterly Review, No. 18, June 1831 (Vol 9) by Various

As he took in the meaning of the sudden silence and the averted glances, a smile of contempt settled about his mouth.
— from Sir Christopher: A Romance of a Maryland Manor in 1644 by Maud Wilder Goodwin

Burns, Robert , celebrated Scottish poet, born at Alloway, near Ayr, in 1759, son of an honest, intelligent peasant, who tried farming in a small way, but did not prosper; tried farming himself on his father's decease in 1784, but took to rhyming by preference; driven desperate in his circumstances, meditated emigrating to Jamaica, and published a few poems he had composed to raise money for that end; realised a few pounds thereby, and was about to set sail, when friends and admirers rallied round him and persuaded him to stay; he was invited to Edinburgh; his poems were reprinted, and money came in; soon after he married, and took a farm, but failing, accepted the post of exciseman in Dumfries; fell into bad health, and died in 1796, aged 37.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

I'm just big enough to squirm and suffer and hate myself for being such a pitiful little coward.
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers

At Aix-les-Bains, Plombières, Salins, and how many other inland spas, you are literally wedged in between shelving hills.
— from East of Paris: Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Matilda Betham-Edwards