The queen became so fond of my company, that she could not dine without me.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

But this queen died; and the king soon married another wife, who was very beautiful, but so proud that she could not bear to think that any one could surpass her.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Margaret lifted herself slowly up, and went to her own room; for just now she could not bear much more.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

So, see and get the money, and pretty quickly, will you?" "Oh!" said Dunsey, sneeringly, coming nearer to his brother and looking in his face.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

She could not say from memory (who, in similar cases, ever can?) how many days had elapsed between the renewal of the doctor's attendance on his patient and the previous departure of Lady Glyde.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

there is scarcely any timber on the river above the R. Snake Clifts, nor is there anything larger than willow brush in sight of these forks.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

And it is equally impossible for me to form the abstract idea of motion distinct from the body moving, and which is neither swift nor slow, curvilinear nor rectilinear; and the like may be said of all other abstract general ideas whatsoever....
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He had a massive head, a broad, deep brow, and great coal-black eyes, which once seen could never be forgotten.
— from American Leaders and Heroes: A preliminary text-book in United States History by Wilbur F. (Wilbur Fisk) Gordy

Those straggling lines without any beginning, no name of him to whom they were addressed, nothing even of the most superficial courtesy, nothing that marked the link that had been—unless it were, perhaps, the abruptness, the harshness, which she would have used to no other.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The impression which her lofty determination of character makes on the mind of Macbeth is well described where he exclaims, ——“Bring forth men children only; For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males!”
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

“Sir Cradock Nowell, I am a violent, hot, and passionate man.
— from Cradock Nowell: A Tale of the New Forest. Vol. 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

She could not take her eyes away, as, on the steep hill to the south, a cluster of slender towers rose up, ivory-white, against the sky.
— from The Man with the Double Heart by Muriel Hine

Written for the meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society, at Chatham Street Chapel, New York, held on the 4th of the seventh month, 1834.
— from Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

It was comparatively easy to dispose of Mehemet Ali, with the assistance of Sir Charles Napier; but Louis Philippe was an antagonist with whom it was much more difficult to deal.
— from Lord Palmerston by Anthony Trollope

But Mini now understood the meaning of the word "father-in-law," and she could not reply to him as of old.
— from Stories from Tagore by Rabindranath Tagore

Mrs. Lesly was met by her sister with the same enthusiasm which quite overcame her weak nerves, and she burst into tears; she could not tell why, she thought it might be joy, or that her head was overpowered by the sweet scent on their pocket-handkerchiefs, or the rapidity of her sister's conversation, and expressions of endearment.
— from Mabel: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Newby, C. J., Mrs.