This lady—dressed in an off-hand, easy style; bringing her nose and her forefinger together, with the difficulty I have described; standing with her head necessarily on one side, and, with one of her sharp eyes shut up, making an uncommonly knowing face—after ogling Steerforth for a few moments, broke into a torrent of words.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

A little spluttering was heard and a tiny blue flame sprang up, making a choking smoke.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But now the necessity is sweet unto me, against which sweetness I fight, that I be not taken captive; and carry on a daily war by fastings; often bringing my body into subjection; and my pains are removed by pleasure.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

When the whole body was united in their camp, those who had served under Maximin, and those who had remained at Rome, insensibly communicated to each other their complaints and apprehensions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I was glad to get home; my legs shook under me, and I could only stand and pant.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

; My father and my grandfather were kings; And you were sworn true subjects unto me; And tell me, then, have you not broke your oaths?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Schwartzmann ungraciously made an order of his acceptance.
— from Brood of the Dark Moon (A Sequel to "Dark Moon") by Charles Willard Diffin

But my horse was speared under me, and he remembered it for the 110 rest of his life.
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood

However that may be, we have here, brought out in strong contrast, the conciliatory feeling which inspired such Union men as Douglas, and the strong and persistent efforts they made in behalf of Concession and Peace up to a period only a few weeks before the bombardment of Sumter; and the almost total revulsion in their sentiments after that event, as to the only proper means to preserve the Union.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Then, when thou returnest them safe unto my arms, by Ormuzd the Blessed, I swear that thy name shall be exalted as Shah throughout the land.
— from The Story of Rustem, and other Persian hero tales from Firdusi by Elizabeth D. Renninger

At that they both sat up, made a second attack on the food, but finally were compelled to stop.
— from The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine

7 at A and is hung solidly by the brackets shown at B from the frame which carries the flasks, so that it has the same upward motion as the flasks, and the upper ends of the stools remain in contact with the sand of the mould until same is lifted from machine.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 1157, March 5, 1898 by Various

The Grand Duchess sent us mistletoe and plum-pudding by the hand of M. Boulderoff.
— from My War Experiences in Two Continents by S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

How Field seized upon my absence from the city for the briefest visit to bombard me with queer and fanciful letters, found another illustration during Christmas week, 1885, which I spent with a house party at Blair Lodge, the home of Walter Cranston Larned, whom I have already mentioned as the possessor of Field's two masterpieces in color.
— from Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Slason Thompson

When I heard this, I felt the same as you did just now; anger seized upon me, and I was as much ashamed as if I were standing in the pillory.
— from A Word, Only a Word — Complete by Georg Ebers

But that you, dear, should mistake your feelings toward me, mistake sisterly affection, womanly sympathy, intellectual appreciation, for that living fire of eternal love which only should unite man and woman, was natural, too, though most unfortunate.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth