She was alone; for Antonet stayed to see what became of her false lover, and, after he was seized again, retired to her lodging the most disconsolate woman in the world, for having lost her hopes of Brilliard , to whom she had engaged all that honour she had.
— from Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister by Aphra Behn

The tears streamed down his face as the thought came over him with overwhelming conviction, that it was for him that the man he loved so had endured all the horrible suffering of death by crucifixion.
— from Joel: A Boy of Galilee by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

I. It is not then enough that men who give The best gifts given of man to man should feel, Alive, a snake’s head ever at their heel: Small hurt the worms may do them while they live— 135 Such hurt as scorn for scorn’s sake may forgive.
— from A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne

She breathlessly awaited the operation, which was one of some tediousness, watching him one moment, averting her face the next; and when it was done she shut her eyes at the hideous spectacle that was revealed.
— from A Group of Noble Dames by Thomas Hardy

Aladdin's mother returned home much more gratified than she had expected, and told her son with much joy the condescending answer she had received from the sultan's own mouth; and that she was to come to the divan again that day three months.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Anonymous

The Honorable Edward is liberal in his views," says he, enthusiastically, "and treats his subject with some latitude.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

udly, and dipping her beak that they might summon his ears as the hand summons the eyes.
— from Outlines of Zuñi Creation Myths Thirteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896, pages 321-448 by Frank Hamilton Cushing