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

And the Captain made her advances that filled her with sickening dismay, nor would she ever see him unless she had George by her side.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Her expectations had been strongly excited; she had urged nothing against our project, on the contrary, she was evidently pleased by it; but its evident ill success changed the current of her ideas.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Why the sudden encounter should have upset him 127 so––why the quiet glance Elorn bestowed upon Palla should have made him more uncomfortable still, he could not understand.
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Whatever the system employed, several hundred unusually important individuals given special burial in the Funeral Mound attest to the distinctions which existed.
— from Ocmulgee National Monument, Georgia by G. D. Pope

It will be the last time I shall ever see her unless good fortune lies in this letter, and for that I hardly dare hope.
— from The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II by Charles Major

est perpétuelle et inmortélle, pource quelle est crée a thymage of God almighty, and if you aske me of what substaunce limage de Dieu tout puissant, et sy uous me demandés de quel matiére she is, I may say that it is fyre spirituell as ben the angels of God, elle est, je puis dire que cest feu espirituél come sont les angeles de Dieu, the whiche shalbe in her hyghe strength and prosperitie, whan she shalbe separate laquelle sera en sa haulte uigueur et prosperite, alors quelle sera separée from her body, by the meane of the whiche she is infatuate, for by de son corps, par le moien duquel elle est infatuée, car par the vegetable myght, with the whiche she is bounde,
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés

"Wha was it?—I conjure you to tell me," said Effie, seating herself upright.—"Wha could tak interest in sic a cast-by as I am now?—Was it—was it him?
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 1 by Walter Scott

The condition of the above-written obligation is such, that if the above bounden George Prince of Wales, Frederick Duke of York, and William Henry Duke of Clarence, or any or either of them, or any of their Heirs, Executors, or Administrators, shall well and truly pay, or cause to be paid, unto the above-named John Cator, his Executors, Administrators, or Assigns, the full sum of Sixty Thousand Pounds of lawful money of Great Britain, within the space or time of six calendar months next, after any one or either of us, the said George Prince of Wales, Frederick Duke of York, and William Henry Duke of Clarence, shall come to and ascend the Throne of England, together with lawful interest on the same; to be computed from the day that such event shall happen, upon whom, to the time of paying off this obligation, then, and in such case, the same shall become null Page 211 [ 211 ] and void; otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue.
— from Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume 2 (of 2) Including, Among Other Important Matters, Full Particulars of the Mysterious Death of the Princess Charlotte by Hamilton, Anne, Lady

Yet none the less in some misty way he wondered why this woman, with her splendid hair and scorching eyes, should have upbraided the tetrarch and abused the procurator because of the friendless Galilean whom he was leading to the cross.
— from Mary Magdalen: A Chronicle by Edgar Saltus

" Márya Dmítrievna again became so perturbed, that she even straightened herself up, and flung her hands apart.
— from A Nobleman's Nest by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev