Nothing came to injure them in the deep silence of the living rock: they were beyond the reach of heat and cold and damp, and the aromatic drugs with which they had been saturated were evidently practically everlasting in their effect.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The pendulum beat the seconds, which each player eagerly counted, as he listened, with mathematical regularity.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

She added that she was bound by Christian charity to forgive me for the crime I had committed in seducing her, and she felt certain of the reward of the elect, and she assured me that she would ever pray earnestly for my conversion.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

He dressed the character to perfection, being always particular in the matter of clothes, and was quite admirable in raising his forefinger deferentially to the edge of his cap, a salute whose effect Ponderby endangered by his unfortunate habit of blushing.
— from Lord Stranleigh Abroad by Robert Barr

In all the arrangements, sister was entirely passive, exhibiting neither unwillingness, nor interest.
— from Cora and The Doctor; or, Revelations of A Physician's Wife by Madeline Leslie

The sword, as the emblem of knightly honour and faith, was from the remotest times a vehicle for the richest decoration; but it is doubtful whether any specimens were ever produced, even by the combined efforts of the swordsmith and jeweller, to equal the work of those here represented, which are not only connected with the history of our country, but happily also the property of the nation.
— from Armour in England, from the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First by John Starkie Gardner

Whether this sailor was ever pressed, either before or after his abortive decease, we are not informed; but there is on record at least one well-authenticated instance of that calamity overtaking a person who had passed the bourne whence none is supposed to return.
— from The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore by J. R. (John Robert) Hutchinson

What immediately followed this, and made the conclusion, were these; My humble muse in unambitious strains Paints the green forests and the flow'ry plains; Where I obscurely pass my careless days, Pleased in the silent shade with empty praise, Enough for me that to the list'ning swains First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains.—
— from The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

[18] Among the lesser works, the Confessions and an essay on The Life of Solitude were each printed eight or nine times before the year 1700.
— from Petrarch, the First Modern Scholar and Man of Letters A Selection from His Correspondence with Boccaccio and Other Friends, Designed to Illustrate the Beginnings of the Renaissance by Francesco Petrarca

Do you know, [Pg 293] I love these rocks, this wild, picturesque spot, where every pathway, every stone awakens in me so many feelings and thoughts that have nothing in common with my dull, grey, everyday life....
— from Mimi's Marriage by Lidiia Ivanovna Veselitskaia

But Alice was a pious girl, who knew it wasn't wise To look at strange young sorters with expressive purple eyes; So she sought the village priest, to whom her family confessed, The priest by whom their little sins were carefully assessed.
— from Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by W. S. (William Schwenck) Gilbert