He, when he saw his daughter there, began to sigh piteously, and still more when he perceived that I held her closely embraced and that she lay quiet without resisting or complaining, or showing any reluctance; nevertheless he remained silent lest they should carry into effect the repeated threats the renegade had addressed to him.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The doctor unbuttoned his overcoat, and still pacing about, said: “Wretched woman!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Indeed, he very often made her such presents; and she, in complacence to him, spent much time in adorning herself.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Balbec; yes, they are building hotels there now, superimposing them upon its ancient and charming soil, which they are powerless to alter; how delightful it is, down there, to be able to step out at once into regions so primitive and so entrancing.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

“Probably; and those steeples, pointed and sculptured, that we catch a glimpse of yonder, are similar to those that I have heard described at Chambord.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

While Sergeant Cuff still left me free, I had to choose—and at once—between destroying the nightgown, or hiding it in some safe place, at some safe distance from the house.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The announcement of supper put a stop both to the game of ecarte, and the recapitulation of the beauties of the Eatanswill Gazette .
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

[227] Sic plerumque agitat stultos inscitia , as he that examines his own and other men's actions shall find.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The Seaforths put a stop to this manœuvre by rifle and Lewis-gun fire, and many Germans shot on the bridge were drowned in the river.
— from The History of the 51st (Highland) Division 1914-1918 by F. W. (Frederick William) Bewsher

so he ought to have been satisfied; but some people are strangely exacting!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 107. August 4, 1894. by Various

" She paused and sat holding the hands of little Sue and looking at them as if their beauty were a great wonder.
— from Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods by Irving Bacheller

The saying, current among Europeans in Brazil, is that the only thing that remains to be done upon the São Paulo and Santos line is to gild the tops of the telegraph poles.
— from South America: Observations and Impressions New edition corrected and revised by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

All the people seemed to be in a great hurry; Lalette began to wonder what they would do if she put a small witchery on one of these urgent passengers to make him stand like a post—then shuddered away from the thought.
— from The Blue Star by Fletcher Pratt