You shall know everything, even more fully than I have ever known it myself until within the last few hours.
— from The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales by John Charles Dent

A perfect knowledge of these principles, and the intimacy that he had so kindly encouraged, emboldened me to speak frankly.
— from A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by James Fenimore Cooper

Before the mustanger could finish his speech, his listener had pictured to herself a certain image, that might answer to the description of his companion: a girl of her own age—perhaps more inclining to embonpoint —with a skin of chestnut brown; eyes of almond shade, set piquantly oblique to the lines of the nose; teeth of more than pearly purity; a tinge of crimson upon the cheeks; hair like Castro’s tail; beads and bangles around neck, arms, and ankles; a short kirtle elaborately embroidered; mocassins covering small feet; and fringed leggings, laced upon limbs of large development.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

Armantine went into ecstasies over the scenery; she kept exclaiming every minute: "Why, it is perfectly lovely here!
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock