Her features seemed to sink and wither, and on either side of her face her long hair hung mournfully down; she sat crestfallen and musing, exactly like a woman taken in sin in some old picture.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Seneca's tragedies had little action, slight characterization, and many extremely long speeches, which often display, however, much brilliant rhetoric.
— from An Introduction to Shakespeare by H. N. (Henry Noble) MacCracken

The frontier had been a challenge (p. 413) to his manhood; now that he had stood every test it had presented to him, its glamour faded and he looked about for a sharper challenge and more exacting labors.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

I fear the consequences of that servile acceptance of everything which "the parson" says, which is so common among many English laymen.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

Oh, as a mother watches over her sick child and marks every little change, so I kept watch over your love with fear and trembling, and when I saw in your cold looks how it had paled, and felt in your kisses how feeble was its pulse, it seemed to me I must die with anguish.
— from Marie Grubbe, a Lady of the Seventeenth Century by J. P. (Jens Peter) Jacobsen

That nerve fibrils ramify in ganglion and sensory cells, and may even leave these cells to join those of other cells, has been well demonstrated by Apathy, [6] so that my finding only a single process of the visual cells leading centrad without giving off lateral fibers cannot be a serious objection.
— from Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiology by E. W. (Edward William) Berger

Professor E. F. Humphrey of Trinity College (Connecticut) has given profitable criticism on the greater part of the text; and Professor Charles A. Beard of Columbia University, Professor Sidney B. Fay of Smith College, and Mr. Edward L. Durfee of Yale University, have read the whole work and suggested several valuable emendations.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

And the whole party come forward to sing in the pleasant manner of French vaudevilles, "C'est Sonday, Sonday, Sonday" &c. and make everybody laugh very much.
— from Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

My only surviving companion and myself exchanged looks of unutterable horror.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds