Alfred, my darling Alfred.’ With such exclamations, she hurried upstairs, followed by Kate who, although she did not quite participate in the fond wife’s apprehensions, was a little flurried, nevertheless.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

She wondered if she should ever see him, but she knew that if she did she should not like him, and he would not like her, and that she should only stand and stare at him and say nothing, though she should be wanting dreadfully to ask him why he had done such a queer thing.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In spite of the shameful exhibition she had made of herself, it amused her still.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Completely exhausted by so many untoward adventures, I, too, was enjoying the shortest of naps, the whole household, within and without, was doing the same, some were lying here and there asleep at our feet, others leaned against the walls, and some even slept head to head upon the threshold itself; the lamps, failing because of a lack of oil, shed a feeble and flickering light, when two Syrians, bent upon stealing an amphora of wine, entered the dining-room.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

and when they parted, after assuring the latter of the pleasure it would always give her to see her either at Longbourn or Netherfield, and embracing her most tenderly, she even shook hands with the former.—Elizabeth took leave of the whole party in the liveliest spirits.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The objection that in using this hymn we pray to angels and heavens, to ice and snow, etc., shews how hard it is to find reasonable cause of complaint against its use.
— from The Three Additions to Daniel, a Study by William Heaford Daubney

He does not actually believe in the transmigration of souls, but to him, the Romanticist who lives in the contemplation of the eternal, time is of such subordinate significance that, just as he recognises no difference between a natural and a supernatural event, so he sees none between past, present, and future.
— from Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 2. The Romantic School in Germany by Georg Brandes

In 1685 his College appointed him Principal of its affiliated Hall, St. Edmund, so honourably distinguished for the Biblical studies of its members; but Mill had by that time made good progress in his Greek Testament, on which he gladly spent the last thirty years of his life, dying suddenly in 1707, a fortnight after its publication.
— from A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. by Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener

Nancy raised her head bravely and met unflinchingly the gaze of the saddest eyes she had ever seen in human head.
— from The Lost Despatch by Natalie Sumner Lincoln

Still, even so, he must be more or less mad to think a thing like that.
— from Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918 by George A. Birmingham

The first time she ever saw him, she and he got on wonderfully well together; and when I returned to the drawing-room, after seeing him down to the gate, her first words were, “What a wonderful man that Mr. MacShaughnassy is.
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

No doubt she prefers the southern English she has been accustomed to.
— from White Wings: A Yachting Romance, Volume I by William Black

Georgina's husband is wealthy and indulgent, and "Uncle Robert," the beneficent friend of their earlier days, has charged [Pg 62] himself with Sydney's support ever since her father died until recently, when she has married a wealthy man.
— from The Bride of the Tomb, and Queenie's Terrible Secret by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

she exclaimed, shaking her fist at the bell buoy which, however invisible through the fog, kept up its steady ding-dong.
— from Witches Cove A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell