Lord forgive us!” says Kamyshev, and goes in to the Frenchman.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Yet, when Captain Elisha asked the office boy of Sylvester, Kuhn and Graves if the senior partner was in, he received an affirmative answer.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Her eyes met his languidly, shedding a sombre, mysterious light upon him through the black shower of her abundant hair, … the evil glitter of the great Symbolic Gem she wore fixed him with its stony yet mesmeric luster … a delicious smile parted her roseate lips,—and breaking off a magnolia-bud from the cluster she held, she kissed and gave it to him… "Be at peace, good Theos!"
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

She and her husband seem to have had more money than they could safely keep above ground in the troubled times of their life, and buried it for safety beneath an apple-tree.
— from The Romance of Wills and Testaments by Edgar Vine Hall

She had almost concluded her search, when her eye fell on a prostrate form, closely wrapt in a long black cloak; she knelt and gazed into the upturned face, and a low cry of bitter anguish welled up and passed her colorless lips.
— from Inez: A Tale of the Alamo by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

With these two sage proverbs—which all acknowledge and scarcely any really believe, or surely they would act a little more as if they did—I leave Johanna Leaf sitting silently in her solitary parlor, knitting stockings for her child; weaving many a mingled web of thought withal, yet never letting a stitch go down; and Hilary Leaf walking cheerily and fearlessly up one strange street and down another to find out the "bad" place, where she once had no idea it would ever have been her lot to go.—One thing she knew, and gloried in the knowledge, that if Robert Lyon had known she was going, or known half the cares she had to meet, he would have recrossed the Indian seas—have risked fortune, competence, hope of the future, which was the only cheer of his hard present—in order to save her from them all.
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I was quite interested at discovering this reverse side of the temperament, the devotional side preponderates so enormously, and the greatest scamps kneel and groan in their prayer-meetings with such entire zest.
— from Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Suppose he went down to St Kilda, and got into the garden, he knew every inch of the way; then he could slip into the open window, and if it was not open, he could use a diamond ring to cut the glass.
— from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume

Such kings are given in the Lord's anger, Hos.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields