Mrs. Glegg emitted a long sort of guttural sound with closed lips, that smiled in mingled pity and scorn.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The original papers, together with the scarlet letter itself—a most curious relic—are still in my possession, and shall be freely exhibited to whomsoever, induced by the great interest of the narrative, may desire a sight of them.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Their annual round have driven, And you, tho' scarce in maiden prime, Are so much nearer Heaven.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

I am very well satisfied in my pictures, and so took them in another coach home along with me, and there with great pleasure my wife
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

While I was busy at the Office, my wife sends for me to come home, and what was it but to see the pretty girl which she is taking to wait upon her: and though she seems not altogether so great a beauty as she had before told me, yet indeed she is mighty pretty; and so pretty, that I find I shall be too much pleased with it, and therefore could be contented as to my judgement, though not to my passion, that she might not come, lest I may be found too much minding her, to the discontent of my wife.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The original papers, together with the scarlet letter itself,—a most curious relic,—are still in my possession, and shall be freely exhibited to whomsoever, induced by the great interest of the narrative, may desire a sight of them.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I had stopped in my perplexity, and suddenly there was a patter of feet, and there she was running towards me.
— from Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire by Arthur Conan Doyle

I tell no one but you, Christine C——, who have stepped into my place, and stolen away my home.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

The strategical experts protested against the wasteful “side-shows” in Mesopotamia, Palestine, and Saloniki, and the taking of Jerusalem was counted merely a pretty bit of Christmas shopping that could not weigh against the fall of Kerensky, the end of Russian résistance in the Bolshevik upheaval, and the Italian stampede down their own mountainsides.
— from The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes

The conditions to which first offenders are subjected in many prisons are simply appalling.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy (New Series, No. 46, January 1907) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

—In an old paper I find the following proclamation of a fair, to be held in a town in Scotland; it may, perhaps, amuse some of your numerous readers:— "O
— from Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various

Stadinger remained standing in military position and saluted as was demanded by his idea of the respectful, for respect was the main thing, although he did not in the least think of giving in by so doing.
— from The Sign of Flame by E. Werner