Among the heap they could distinguish a livid face, streaming hair, a pierced hand and the half nude breast of a woman.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Alyosha remembered afterwards that she had struck him as particularly handsome at that moment.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He had hitherto taken up a cold and even antagonistic attitude to this new doctrine, and with Countess Lidia Ivanovna, who had been carried away by it, he had never argued, but by silence had assiduously parried her attempts to provoke him into argument.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

A man can do so much for a woman when he loves her—he can serve her and protect her, and take all the difficult tasks away from her and leave her only the easy ones—the little, pretty, beautiful things, you know.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler

She has already proved herself as true a woman as ever God made.
— from Far Above Rubies by George MacDonald

Mounting a fresh steed he again placed himself at the head of his men, and a few moments later fell, mortally wounded.
— from The Boy Scouts at the Battle of Saratoga: The Story of General Burgoyne's Defeat by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

She would not have experienced this timidity and indecision had she still had a pure heart, according to monkish notions; but the events of the previous night had already made a division in her mind, and her unfortunate encounter with the wicked woman had only increased her wavering, so that she no longer possessed the courage to step forward with determination and bring about a miracle.
— from Seven Legends by Gottfried Keller

We are confident that so honorable a publishing house as that of Messrs. Ticknor and Fields must have been unaware of the character of a book so full of false pretences, when they allowed their name to be put on the title-page.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Melliss, J. C. St. Helena: a phys., hist., and topog.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 4 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Secondlie by seruingmen, whose wages cannot suffice so much as to find them bréeches, wherefore they are now and then constreined either to kéepe high waies, and breake into the wealthie mens houses with the first sort, or else to walke vp and downe in gentlemens and rich farmers pastures, there to sée and view which horsses féed best, whereby they manie times get something, although with hard aduenture it hath béene knowne by their confession at the gallowes, that some one such chapman hath had fortie, fiftie, or sixtie stolne horsses at pasture here and there abroad in the countrie at a time, which they haue sold at faires and markets farre off, they themselues in the meane season being taken about home for honest yeomen, and verie wealthie drouers, till their dealings haue been bewraied.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

“Only when I am in uniform,” he said hastily, and piloted her across the road.
— from The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

" "Wisdom," says that other disciple of the Sapiential philosophy, "hath mingled Her wine, she hath also prepared Herself a table."
— from Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 by Walter Pater

But Dick shaved him, and pricked him, and tortured him in all allowable ways, then sent him off to Edinburgh, two hundred miles away, to be locked up in the Tolbooth, pending further proceedings.
— from Witch Stories by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton