It is the vilest murder-trap on the whole river-side, and I fear that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is the vilest murder-trap on the whole riverside, and I fear that Neville St. Clair has entered it never to leave it more.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

All her accents now faultering into heart-fetched sighs, she closed her eyes in the sweet death, in the instant of which we could easily see the signs in the quiet, dying, languid posture of her late so furious driver, who was stopped of a sudden, breathing short, panting, and, for that time, giving up the spirit of pleasure.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

A pretty Emperor indeed—with one foot in the grave and yet plotting wholesale murder"—and Susan thumped and kneaded her bread with as much vicious energy as she could have expended in punching Francis Joseph himself if he had been so unlucky as to fall into her clutches.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

When she writes an essay on a Shakespearean character, her English is fine and strong, her grasp of the subject is the grasp of one who knows, and her page is electric with light.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

And since, in China as elsewhere, the lower classes are as a rule less educated and more superstitious than the upper classes—have a certain amount of constructive imagination, but not enough to be self-critical—legends, rejected or even ridiculed by the scholarly class when their knowledge has become sufficiently scientific, continue to be invented and believed in by the peasant and the dweller in districts far from the madding crowd long after myth, properly so called, has exhaled its last breath.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

She could have entered into competition with the two other little ones, so far as the coquetry of her dress was concerned; she wore a cap of fine linen, ribbons on her bodice, and Valenciennes lace on her cap.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And the particular visual beauty of sparkling light and atmosphere, of which he was one of the first to make a separate study, could hardly exist in a work that aimed also at the significance of beautiful form, the appeal of form, as was explained in an earlier chapter, not being entirely due to a visual but to a mental perception, into which the sense 191 of touch enters by association.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Two ranges of broken columns told of the bygone glories of the aisles; and the beautiful side chapels having escaped injury better than other parts of the fabric, remained in tolerable preservation.
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Michel Menko took in all the details of her beauty, and evidently suffered, suffered cruelly, his eyes invincibly attracted toward her.
— from Prince Zilah — Complete by Jules Claretie

97 CHAPTER IV Limitations on the Postal Power Like all grants to Congress, the postal power is not unrestrained, but, as the Supreme Court has expressed it, the difficulty in setting limits beyond which it may not go, arises, “not from want of power in Congress to prescribe the regulations as to what shall constitute mail matter, but from the necessity of enforcing them consistently with the rights reserved to the people, of far greater importance than the transportation of the mail.”
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

Only at last, when she answered the question, "Ought I to marry a man alone for the sake of money or position?" with an emphatic "No," could she close her eyes in sleep.
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.

Secretary Chase had estimated in July that $3,000,000 might be annually derived from this source; but the receipts from the sales of lands never reached even $1,000,000 a year until two years after the Rebellion had been suppressed.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

The grey-haired respectable seaman closed his eyes in a silence filled with significance, and after a short smoke thus proceeded: "Some of the watch on deck sprawled about in the shadow out of sight, curled up, asleep; only one figure was upright forward.
— from The Honour of the Flag by William Clark Russell

“She can hear, even if we speak in a whisper.
— from The City of Pleasure: A Fantasia on Modern Themes by Arnold Bennett

[669] The entrance into this community was open; Buddha imparted the consecration of the mendicant to every one in whom he found belief in his doctrine and the desire to renounce the world; and said, "Come hither; enter into the spiritual life."
— from The History of Antiquity, Vol. 4 (of 6) by Max Duncker

Her head swam; she closed her eyes in a momentary faintness.
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

"It is a scientific axiom," he said, addressing Ela with a thoughtful glint in his eye, "that matter must occupy space, therefore Lady Constance Dex must be in existence, she cannot have evaporated into thin air, and I am not going to leave this place until I find her."
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace