She could have embroiled M. and Mme.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

She limped a step nearer to me, and looked as if she could have eaten me alive.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

If she had premeditated committing the crime alone or with an accomplice, would she not have been on the watch in those bed-rooms where she could have easily moved about without arousing suspicions?
— from My Memoirs by Marguerite Steinheil

She was herself so pure,--delicacy, modesty, and virtue so characterized her every movement, and her every word,--that he tortured himself with believing that a part of the reprobation and scorn with which she must think of his mother, would fall upon himself.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

If the bride had been any one else, she could have enjoyed making all go off well, but, under present circumstances, it would be great pain to her father and Margaret, a misery to Ethel, and something she dared not think of to the guests.
— from The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Lirette impressed the novelist as being very stupid, and he wondered how his "Polar Star" could have ever made a friend of her.
— from Women in the Life of Balzac by Juanita Helm Floyd

"I was devotedly attached to my father," she continued; "he educated me, and was so proud of the faculties which his own careful tending drew into activity, that it was the greatest happiness of my life to deserve the kindness which anticipated their development.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

The Model Nation has its national debt of one thousand pounds, due to the Commissariat chest; and this burthen of the State costs his Excellency many a sleepless night, spent in vain conjectures as to the best mode of relieving the financial embarrassments.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

She closed her eyes momentarily against the fear of that anti-climax.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

She closed her eyes meditatively, and thought of him.
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

To my great joy, he had not yet found the person he wanted; and after a short conversation he engaged me, at what seemed to me a princely salary.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various