In my situation they would have done as much as I did, and perhaps more; for, however estimable and faithful Madam d’Houdetot might be, she was still a woman; her lover was absent; opportunities were frequent; temptations strong; and it would have been very difficult for her always to have defended herself with the same success against a more enterprising man.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It would enable him to leave the prison in some style, and with his reputation for being a desperate and dangerous fellow untarnished; and he readily helped the gaoler's daughter to make her aunt appear as much as possible the victim of circumstances over which she had no control.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

" Mrs. Blackwell writes her teasingly about what she calls her obtuseness, going straight ahead with her work, never knowing when she was snubbed or defeated, giving the undiluted doctrine to people without ever perceiving their frantic efforts to escape, and ignoring all the humorous features of the campaigns.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

A faint scarcely perceptible scent of incense hung about her; and that scent reminded him of the time when he, too, believed in God and used to go to evening service, and when he used to dream so much of pure romantic love.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And in the knitting and the oneing He is our Very, True Spouse, and we His loved Wife, His Fair Maiden: with which Wife He is never displeased.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

I sat and watched her white hands, not daring to raise my eyes to hers.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

For, as he that plays for nothing will not heed his game; no more will voluntary employment so thoroughly affect a student, except he be very intent of himself, and take an extraordinary delight in the study, about which he is conversant.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

but I could not, but found Mr. Sheply and W. Howe there.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

For example: Her gown, a plain English mantua-silk, manufactured in Spitalfields; her petticoat the same; her binding, a piece of chequered-stuff, made at Bristol and Norwich; her under-petticoat, a piece of black callamanco, made at Norwith—quilted at home, if she be a good housewife, but the quilting of cotton from Manchester, or cotton-wool from abroad; her inner-petticoats, flannel and swanskin, from Salisbury and Wales; her stockings from Tewksbury, if ordinary, from Leicester, if woven; her lace and edgings from Stony Stratford the first, and Great Marlow the last; her muslin from foreign trade, as likewise her linen, being something finer than the man's, may perhaps be a guilick-Holland; her wrapper, or morning-gown, a piece of Irish linen, printed at London; her black hood, a thin English lustring; her gloves, lamb's-skin, from Berwick and Northumberland, or Scotland; her ribands, being but very few, from Coventry, or London; her riding-hood, of English worsted-camblet, made at Norwich.
— from The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) by Daniel Defoe

There he remained some time, without speaking a word, yet agitated and sighing, and with his eyes lowered.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

We boys have splendid times in the summer, fishing and swimming, and we have had good skating this cold winter.
— from Harper's Young People, March 22, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

His son Erling the Bold, who observed what was going on, had run his cutter along the stern of his father’s ship, and was hastening to his aid, when King Harald became aware that his men were giving way, and rushed to their support.
— from Erling the Bold by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

She remained unmoved; only assured him, that nothing but what she apprehended was her first duty, could alienate her from him, and that she never would dispose of herself to any other : but advised him to marry.
— from Munster Village by Hamilton, Mary, Lady

He is to mark well what he sees and what he hears concerning the ordinances and the laws of the house of the Lord.
— from The Prophet Ezekiel: An Analytical Exposition by Arno Clemens Gaebelein