On returning, I whispered to Catherine that he had heard a good part of what she said, I was sure; and told how I saw him quit the kitchen just as she complained of her brother’s conduct regarding him.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

His wife assured us, that he had not observed any difference, except in the absence of the children from his study, and to her infinite surprise he complained of this unaccustomed quiet.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Cook, if in a good temper, could sing comic songs, and the housemaid, if she happened not to be offended with you, could imitate a hen that has laid an egg, a bottle of champagne being opened, and could mew like two cats fighting.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

The father accordingly went to the inn where he knew Chan was staying, and to his immense surprise he found him to be a young man of about twenty-five, highly polished in manner, and possessed of unusual intelligence.
— from Chinese Folk-Lore Tales by J. (John) Macgowan

As to Persons we have nothing to say to them, but this, without pretending to prophesy, may be safely advanced, that Heaven it self, has Eminently declared it self against the Fury and Immoderate Zeal of those Gentlemen, and told us as plainly as possible, unless we would Expect a Voice from on high, that he neither Has nor Designs to bless this Generation nor their proceedings.
— from The Lay-Man's Sermon upon the Late Storm Held forth at an Honest Coffee-House-Conventicle by Daniel Defoe

It seemed as though her iron spirit had yielded at last to the repeated opposition of an unkind world.
— from A Romantic Young Lady by Robert Grant

"Sounds as though he is smacking his lips," said Mrs. Cooper to her sister-in-law, who was eyeing Mr. Cooper restlessly.
— from Stepping Backwards Night Watches, Part 5. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

This done, the young private crossed over to where he had thrust and covered over the spear, and, to his intense satisfaction, he found that unless a searcher well turned over the dried leaves, it would be impossible to find the concealed weapon.
— from Trapped by Malays: A Tale of Bayonet and Kris by George Manville Fenn

The negro had encouraged him to shoot and to his intense satisfaction, he accidentally killed one.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton