she hears right off when she comes home, whether it's HIGGINS.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

She spoke of killing herself in a manner that made me shudder, as I saw that she had reflected on what she was saying.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

No way inferior is the end of this strange tale, which assumes even somewhat of serious interest when the Schildburgers, after performing every conceivable piece of folly, and receiving the especial privilege of so doing under the seal and signature of the emperor, by the crowning act of their lives turn themselves out of house and home, whereby they are compelled, like the Jews, to become outcasts and wanderers over the face of the earth, by which means it has arisen that there is no spot, however remote, on which some of their descendants, who may be known by their characteristic stupidity, are not to be found."
— from The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

And so he ran on, with such a flux of words and absurd theories that finally the captain, his patience exhausted, cut him short.
— from The Downfall by Émile Zola

The three lieutenants were sent to Macon, and later to Charleston, S.C., where they were impounded with other officers under fire of the Union guns; but when six hundred rebel officers were sent down to Morris Island to be placed under fire, the Charleston commander removed the Yankee officers to a pen in rear of the city.
— from Company G A Record of the Services of One Company of the 157th N. Y. Vols. in the War of the Rebellion from Sept. 19, 1862, to July 10, 1865 by A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow

Yet, here she was, transported, as if by the touch of a magician's wand, into what seemed to her to be a more perfect paradise than any of those she had read of, which she had been told she might regard, at least for some little time to come, almost as if it were her own home.
— from The Coward Behind the Curtain by Richard Marsh

She had read of women, seduced from their matrimonial duties by sorcerers allied to the hellish powers, nay, by the Father of Evil himself, who, after conveying his victim into some desert remote from human kind, exchanged the pleasing shape in which he gained her affections, for all his natural horrors.
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

She had read of women surrendering all for love, but she felt dismally that this happy gift had been denied her.
— from The Half-Hearted by John Buchan

And when did he sweep his rider on with such long free play of the hind-quarters? Horse and rider shot into sight again, rounding the curve of the avenue near the gates, and in a break of sunlight Justine saw the glitter of chestnut flanks—and remembered that Impulse was the only chestnut in the stables....
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton