She said composedly: “I remember now!
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Nor did the fame of such success confine itself within the limits of Italy; but the Carthaginians also sent ambassadors to Rome to congratulate them, with an offering of a golden crown, to be placed in Jupiter's shrine in the Capitol.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

‘Well,’ returned my mother, half laughing, ‘and if she is so silly as to say so, can I be blamed for it?’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Then Sue wrote to tell him the day fixed for the wedding; and Jude decided, after inquiry, that she should come into residence on the following Saturday, which would allow of a ten days' stay in the city prior to the ceremony, sufficiently representing a nominal residence of fifteen.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

So she said, could I tell her how to find it, and I said yes, and I told her; and she looked at me with eyes like almost as if she was blind, and herself all waving back.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I suppose "Sea-shore Calcott" is Sir A. W. Calcott the painter.
— from A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing by George Saintsbury

she gasped with quick short sobs, "can it be—" Then she sprang to the door, opened it, and looked out into the black, stormy night.
— from Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe

Marie, wife of Henry Smith, grocer, confessed, under examination, that, being indignant with some of her neighbours because they prospered in their trade more than she did, she oftentimes cursed them; and that once, while she was thus engaged, the devil appeared in the form of a black man, and willed that she should continue in her malice, envy, and hatred, banning and cursing, and then he would see that she was revenged upon all to whom she wished evil.
— from Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams

Her lips were still slightly curved in that attractive oval of dismay.
— from One-Way Ticket to Nowhere by Leroy Yerxa

Suddenly she cried: "If you don't marry me I am disgraced for ever."
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke