His naturally dark complexion had assumed a still further shade of brown from the habit the unfortunate man had acquired of stationing himself from morning till eve at the threshold of his door, on the lookout for guests who seldom came, yet there he stood, day after day, exposed to the meridional rays of a burning sun, with no other protection for his head than a red handkerchief twisted around it, after the manner of the Spanish muleteers.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“Very good, father-in-law,” said Cavalcanti, yielding to his low-born nature, which would escape sometimes through the aristocratic gloss with which he sought to conceal it.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Though they had ever since the spring been expecting Pyotr Verhovensky, whose coming had been heralded first by Tolkatchenko and then by the arrival of Shigalov, though they had expected extraordinary miracles from him, and though they had responded to his first summons without the slightest criticism, yet they had no sooner formed the quintet than they all somehow seemed to feel insulted; and I really believe it was owing to the promptitude with which they consented to join.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Will not this manner of speaking of him, Mrs Smith, convince you that he is nothing to me?
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But just the primer to a life Unopened, rare, upon the shelf, Clasped yet to him and me.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

05 (continué, viendo que uno de aquellos tigres se ruborizaba): si, como yo, tuvieseis hijos; si pensarais que tal vez mañana se verán en la tierra de este infeliz, en la misma situación que él, solos, moribundos, lejos de sus padres;
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Caliban knelt and took the proffered hand, then at her word he stood before her, scarcely certain yet that his head was solidly established on his shoulders.
— from The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle

He had a way of suddenly catching you to his bosom, and picking your pockets of peanuts and candy,–if you carried any about you,–in a manner which took your breath away.
— from The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 by Various

How! replied the vizier’s lady, did not my husband tell you that you were designed for the king, and sufficiently caution you to have a care of Noureddin?
— from The Arabian Nights, Volume 3 (of 4) by Anonymous

And though the angels have no substantial change, yet they have an accidental; for the actions of the angels this day are not the same individual actions which they performed yesterday: but in God there is no change; he always remains the same.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

She had been left an orphan, with the charge of a sister considerably younger than herself, and who was educated and maintained by her exertions.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott

Then he said to the cook, "If it is true that you have saved the children, be assured I will take you from turning the spit, and reward you so that you shall call yourself the happiest man in the world." As the King was speaking these words, the wife of the cook, seeing the dilemma her husband was in, brought Sun and Moon before the King, who, playing at the game of three with Talia and the other children, went round and round kissing first one and then another.
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Helen wondered if she could yield to her own leaning to the primitive.
— from The Man of the Forest by Zane Grey