Trembling at the severity of her aspect my strength scarce sufficed me to obey her.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

And what’s more, Ivan Ivanitch Klopstock the civil counsellor—have you heard of him?—has not to this day paid her for the half-dozen linen shirts she made him and drove her roughly away, stamping and reviling her, on the pretext that the shirt collars were not made like the pattern and were put in askew.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You shall, said my father.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

“Now sir,” said Madame de Villefort, “I must bid you farewell.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It does not follow that, because she knew Cassio was suspected, she must have been referring to Cassio's office.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

If the other allowed him to walk on, and had not seized him as yet, it was, judging from all appearances, in the hope of seeing him lead up to some significant meeting-place and to some group worth catching.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

His staff groping before him, he shall crawl O'er unknown earth, and voices round him call: "Behold the brother-father of his own Children, the seed, the sower and the sown, Shame to his mother's blood, and to his sire Son, murderer, incest-worker."
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

Several thousands were killed and wounded, and the survivors suffered much from cold and hunger.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

And a man, in our times, if only he possesses such a talent and selects some specialty, may, after learning the methods of counterfeiting used in his branch of art,—if he has patience and if his æsthetic feeling (which would render such productions revolting to him) be atrophied,—unceasingly, till the end of his life, turn out works which will pass for art in our society.
— from The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art? by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The scribe rubbed down his colours on a stone slab with a small stone muller.
— from The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians by Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir

So saying, my warm-hearted friend left me to myself.
— from Osceola the Seminole; or, The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid

I was brought up on Shakspere,' said Mr. Knight, smiling.
— from A Great Man: A Frolic by Arnold Bennett

In his Southern superstitious mind, exposed to continual danger, he regarded this hotel as a charmed shelter, and thought that nothing ill would happen to him while living in it; accidents common to the profession, rents in his clothing, scratches in his flesh perhaps, but no last and final fall after the manner of other comrades, the recollection of whom haunted even his happier hours.
— from The Blood of the Arena by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

The grand apartments hung with black, the great chairs of state, raised on several steps, and surmounted by a canopy adorned with Plumes; the caparisoned horses, the immense retinue in Court mourning, the enormous shoulder-knots, embroidered with gold and silver spangles, which decorated the coats of the pages and footmen,—all this magnificence had such an effect on my senses that I could scarcely support myself when introduced to the Princesses.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various