Mrs Verloc pursued the visions of seven years’ security for Stevie, loyally paid for on her part; of security growing into confidence, into a domestic feeling, stagnant and deep like a placid pool, whose guarded surface hardly shuddered on the occasional passage of Comrade Ossipon, the robust anarchist with shamelessly inviting eyes, whose glance had a corrupt clearness sufficient to enlighten any woman not absolutely imbecile.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

How many decrepit, hoary, harsh, writhen, bursten-bellied, crooked, toothless, bald, blear-eyed, impotent, rotten, old men shall you see flickering still in every place?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

“Or will you allow me to show you several fine statues by Thorwaldsen, Bartoloni, and Canova?—all foreign artists, for, as you may perceive, I think but very indifferently of our French sculptors.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“What, been abroad, I suppose?” “Yes, straight from Switzerland.” “Wheugh!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[To CHARLES] To say the truth, it is your policy To save your subjects from such massacre And ruthless slaughters as are daily seen
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The ditch, happily, was almost quite dry, or she must have suffered still more seriously; yet so forlorn, so miserable a figure, I never before saw her.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

They remonstrated with such of the queen’s army as had formerly embraced their party, and told them, “that as they were already reputed traitors by God, they should likewise be excommunicated from their society, and from the participation of the sacraments of the church which God by his mighty power had erected among them; whose ministers have the same authority which Christ granted to his apostles in these words, ‘Whose sins ye shall forgive shall be forgiven, and whose sins ye shall retain shall be retained.’”
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

(G.) Drayton has this expression in his Heroical Epistles :— "Find me out one so young, so fair, so free ."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 34, June 22, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

The spectacle was at the moment of suspense, yet she felt so impatience—the wheel must turn in its own majestic circle—but only an intense expectation.
— from The Gray Dawn by Stewart Edward White

The tops of some young spruce firs strewed on the ground made a luxurious couch, while there was no lack of dry broken branches to furnish a supply of firewood.
— from Janet McLaren, the Faithful Nurse by William Henry Giles Kingston

A short distance below stood Digley Mill property, which consisted of a large building sixty yards square, four storeys high, built of stone; a weaving shed, containing thirty-four looms and other machinery; two dwelling-houses, seven cottages, farm, and other outbuildings, making altogether a small town.
— from Tom Pinder, Foundling: A Story of the Holmfirth Flood by D. F. E. Sykes

Now and again he read aloud a passage which specially struck his attention, and occasionally her comments jarred on his preconceived opinion of her, or, rather, of what a woman so young, so favored, so graciously endowed, ought to feel and think.
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

"What mischief have they supposed you should find?" says he.
— from The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe

On this afternoon I reflected upon the singularity that savages possessing such acute fear of death should yet so frequently seek it.
— from In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

They said she was like an angel in the house; so young, so fair, so sweet—so young, yet, in her wise, sweet way, a mother and friend to the whole household.
— from My Mother's Rival Everyday Life Library No. 4 by Charlotte M. Brame