When the blood began to spurt out, he took my hands in one of his, holding them tight, and with the other seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some of the—— Oh my God!
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

"I want to get a situation, uncle, so that I may earn some money," said Tom, who never fell into circumlocution.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

"I suppose," he said, "that one would best show his appreciation of all this by refraining from the comment which must needs be comparatively commonplace, but really this is so superb that I must express some of my emotion even at the risk of lowering your opinion of my good taste, provided, of course, that you have one."
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott

Her dear old heart is pure gold, and such her quick sympathy that if I want to cry I have to lock myself in my room where she won't see me, for if she sees tears in my eyes she comes and puts her arms around me and weeps, too, without even knowing why, but just with the heavenly pity of one of God's own, although before her eyes are dry she may be damning the butcher in language which curdles the blood.
— from At Home with the Jardines by Lilian Bell

My young cousin Grindall is below, with his college friend, Cotton Mather; but I care not to listen to their discourse, and aunt is busied with her servants in the kitchen, so that I must even sit alone with my thoughts, which be indeed but sad company.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1 from Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

The same thing is more emphatically shown in the case of John and The Abbot—nine and seventeen.
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

"No, she'll do no such thing," interposed Mistress Eveleigh; "she'll give them all to you."
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 2, November, 1884 by Various

Hélène pushed me away with her hand, which she thrust into my eye, saying that I was stifling her; and I said to her: ‘Take your hand away; you are putting out my eye!’—Can’t you imagine the picture?”
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

After a little while had elapsed, a number of savage hungry-looking men came up the hill and settled themselves in my encampment, squatting on the date-bags and clamouring for food.
— from What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

You see that I make everything subservient to business.
— from The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders by Scott, Ernest, Sir

“Yes,”—Lady Cecilia said she understood that, and she had seen the danger of showing too much impatience to speak to Helen; she thought it might excite suspicion of her having something particular to say, she had therefore refrained from asking again.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth