There was every reason why Pesca should not have known him again—every reason also why he should have known Pesca, whose singular personal appearance made a marked man of him, go where he might.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The cumuli, a perfectly oval kind of cloud, piled upon the south, presented a most awful and sinister appearance, with the pitiless aspect often seen before a storm.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Dr. Creeton, the Scotchman, preached a most admirable, good, learned, honest and most severe sermon, yet comicall, upon the words of the woman concerning the Virgin, “Blessed is the womb that bare thee (meaning Christ) and the paps that gave thee suck; and he answered, Nay; rather is he blessed that heareth the word of God, and keepeth it.”
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

7. ) was much affected [3236] with catching of quails, and many gentlemen take a singular pleasure at morning and evening to go abroad with their quail-pipes, and will take any pains to satisfy their delight in that kind.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

So gentlemen, With all my love I do commend me to you: And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you, 31 Heaven willing, shall not lack.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Original Rowena had no sooner beheld him than she uttered a faint shriek; but at once summoning up the energy of her disposition, and compelling herself, as it were, to proceed, while her frame yet trembled with the violence of sudden emotion, she placed upon the drooping head of the victor the splendid chaplet which was the destined reward of the day, and pronounced, in a clear and distinct tone, these words: “I bestow on thee this chaplet, Sir Knight, as the meed of valour assigned to this day's victor:” Here she paused a moment, and then firmly added, “And upon brows more worthy could a wreath of chivalry never be placed!”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Some people, and myself among them, are of good hope from this change that things are reforming; but there are others that do think it is a bit of chance, as all other our greatest matters are, and that there is no general plot or contrivance in any number of people what to do next, (though, I believe, Sir W. Coventry may in himself have further designs;) and so that though other changes may come, yet they shall be accidental and laid upon good principles of doing good.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys

We wonder that this face should please as much as it does, forgetting the soul’s high mission.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

In the evening we visited Seal Island, and killed five seals for the sake of their skins, which were serviceable for the rigging; the boat's crew also found some penguins (Aptenodytes minor) and a nest of iguanas.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

As a consequence the church would not elect Wheelwright in the face of an objection from so prominent a member as Winthrop.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Even the case of the insular insects is by no means so plain as might at first sight appear.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

She paused a moment, as the water prepared to return.
— from Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico by E. L. (Ellsworth Leonardson) Kolb

I have been told that the police officers, who sometimes come to the Workhouse on business, and who see the sick paupers, are much astonished.
— from Workhouse Nursing: The story of a successful experiment by Florence Nightingale

He seemed so poor and mis'able, and he told such a pitiful
— from The Wooing of Calvin Parks by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards