They never disputed our absolute statements, only made notes of them.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This drew from me, in the state of my nerves, a flash of impatience.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

There was a country inn hard by, the landlord of which had by this time come with his people to give their assistance.—Thither my uncle being carried, was undressed and put to bed, wrapped in warm blankets; but having been moved too soon, he fainted away, and once more lay without sense or motion, notwithstanding all the efforts of Clinker and the landlord, who bathed his temples with Hungary water, and held a smelling-bottle to his nose.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I got up at eight, a little giddy from the shortness of my night’s rest, and was ready for him before the appointed time.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He will remain there until Sunday or Monday next, and reconnoitre as far eastward as possible with cavalry, in the mean time.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Perhaps also some one may not approve this form, because he thinks that such a constitution is ill adapted to a legislator who has not despotic power.
— from Laws by Plato

Sometimes the worst side of my nature will crop out, but I always know I am wrong.
— from Frank Merriwell's Alarm; Or, Doing His Best by Burt L. Standish

"Well, my good lord, well," he said, as he advanced into the hall, still glancing his eye, as he spoke, over every object that the place contained, "I have come all this way from my army to see if I cannot persuade you to give your fair daughter to the son of my noble friend De Lacy."
— from The Man-at-Arms; or, Henry De Cerons. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The Franciscan monks, who alone inhabit the terrace, seem to be rather a jolly set of men, notwithstanding their coarse dress, shaven heads, and bare feet.
— from Foot-prints of Travel; Or, Journeyings in Many Lands by Maturin Murray Ballou

Arise in thy beauty, thou star of my night!
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

About the time when he was beginning to feel at ease with his charger, he came to a stop, one misty night, directly opposite the window of a taxicab, and met a pair of eyes which straightway became fixed in a paralysis of amazed doubt.
— from Our Square and the People in It by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Could I have hazarded such a Germanism as the use of the word 'after-world' for posterity , 'Es spreche Welt und Nachwelt meinen Nahmen' might have been rendered with more literal fidelity: 'Let world and after-world speak out my name,' &c. 1800 , 1828 , 1829 .
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In it, as in the study of mathematics, nothing is learned at all that is not learned perfectly; and a careless perusal of Euclid's elements would not be more unprofitable, than that of a treatise on the laws of property.
— from The Southern Literary Messenger, Vol. I., No. 4, December, 1834 by Various

This grand soundness of my nature led me to go under orders, though acquit of legal contract, only seeking to do the right while receiving the money beforehand.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore