‘The same process was then repeated with all the articles which she could handle; and she very easily learned to place the proper labels upon them.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Mighty Mars has turned a priest—the Duc de Clermont, abbe of St. Germain-des-pres.” Crebillon, who was not the sort of man to conceal his writings, told the Duc de Choiseul that he had written some verses exactly like these, but that it was possible the prisoner had been inspired with precisely the same ideas.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

05 (continué, viendo que uno de aquellos tigres se ruborizaba): si, como yo, tuvieseis hijos; si pensarais que tal vez mañana se verán en la tierra de este infeliz, en la misma situación que él, solos, moribundos, lejos de sus padres;
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Every afternoon brought a return of their riotous games all over the house; and she very early learned to sigh at the approach of Saturday's constant half-holiday.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

[407] "No embio Dios á vuestra magestad y á todos los otros Reyes, que tienen sus veces en la tierra, para que se extravien leyendo ni escribiendo ni aun contemplando ni rezando, si no para que fuesen y sean publicos y patentes oraculos á donde todos sus subditos vengan por sus respuestas....
— from History of the Reign of Philip the Second King of Spain, Vol. 3 And Biographical & Critical Miscellanies by William Hickling Prescott

She turned white, standing very erect, looking taller than ever, and very calm—a figure of great dignity.
— from Oldfield: A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

“Listen,” he says, very earnest, “listen to me.
— from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis

“I tried to play fair, Tawdry, tried to play [Pg 27] fair,” said Verbeena earnestly, “like the square little fellow I am.”
— from The Shriek: A Satirical Burlesque by Charles Somerville

Some vigilant eyes, like those of Reuben Ring and my own, had better be open until the morning; further than that, is there no reason for being wakeful."
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

She very early learnt to resent the disabilities of her sex, and to insist that they were not real but artificial, the result of masculine selfishness and injustice.
— from The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation by Edward Maitland

But the queens of the fete were the two little girls, Nana and Pauline, who sat very erect lest they should crush and deface their pretty white dresses.
— from L'Assommoir by Émile Zola

If we look very steadily and continuously at a double pattern, such as those on a carpet composed of two single patterns of different colours, suppose red and yellow ; and if we direct the mind particularly to the contemplation of the red one, the green pattern will sometimes vanish entirely, leaving the red alone visible; and by the same process the red one may be made to disappear.
— from Letters on Natural Magic; Addressed to Sir Walter Scott, Bart. by David Brewster

The whole statue rocked and swayed; Van Emmon looked to see the machine thrown off.
— from The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint