“That sweet, amiable Jane Fairfax!” said Mrs. John Knightley.—“It is so long since I have seen her, except now and then for a moment accidentally in town!
— from Emma by Jane Austen

After supper (having eat nothing all this day) upon a fine tench of Mr. Shelden’s taking, we to bed. 15th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

By victorious Analysis, and Progress of the Species, happiness enough now awaits him.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Cinderella was likewise called up to them to be consulted in all these matters, for she had excellent notions, and advised them always for the best, nay, and offered her services to dress their heads, which they were very willing she should do.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

When she announced to me that she was going on to the stage and afterwards wrote to me about her love; when the desire to spend took hold of her, as it did periodically, and I had to send her every now and then one or two thousand roubles at her request; when she wrote that she intended to die, and afterwards that her baby was dead,—-I was at a loss every time.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She really did persuade herself that she was submitting to some hard external necessity; and thus she was able to moan and complain in her soft manner, all the time she was in reality doing just what she liked.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Thus one Fool lolls his Tongue out at another, And shakes his empty Noddle at his Brother.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Moreover, ardently as I loved her, I sought her embraces not as a lover, but as a husband, nor, as she herself can truly testify, did I draw near to her till I had first both with the due words and with the ring espoused her, asking her if she would have me for husband, to which she answered ay.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

He never spares himself, except now and then to assume a somewhat diaphanous anonymity.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Early in 1889 the Empress Frederick suffered another bereavement which, though not of course to be compared with many which she had endured, nevertheless added perceptibly to her state of melancholy and depression.
— from The Empress Frederick: a memoir by Anonymous

She looked tired and warm, and said she had eaten nothing all day long.
— from Violet: A Fairy Story by C. S. (Caroline Snowden) Guild

She left the carriage with a cheery word to Reo, and then set her face to the hill; the little feet toiling on with swift eagerness through briers and over stones, finding her way she knew not how; conscious only that she did not feel the ground under her feet, but seemed to be walking on nothing, so that she had every now and then a sort of fear of pitching forward.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

The Indians, after some deliberation respecting the manner in which they would put him to death, stripped him entirely naked, and one of the chiefs led him out upon the prairie to the distance of three or four hundred yards from the rest of the band who were grouped together.
— from Daniel Boone: The Pioneer of Kentucky by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

It struck him, even now, as odd that he should be venturing an excuse for Angela at the moment that his thoughts were assailing her with a passionate vindictiveness.
— from Paths of Judgement by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

"One night I stripped her entirely naked as well as myself.
— from The Life and Amours of the Beautiful, Gay and Dashing Kate Percival The Belle of the Delaware by Kate Percival

Lester listened to her, which surprised her every now and again.
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow

The United States Mint, opposite the City Hall, and fronting on Chestnut Street, has executed nearly all the coinage of the country since its establishment in 1792, the present building having been completed in 1833.
— from America, Volume 1 (of 6) by Joel Cook