She sat talking in low murmurs with Selden, and turning a contemptuous and denuded shoulder toward her host, who, far from resenting his exclusion, plunged into the excesses of the MENU with the joyous irresponsibility of a free man.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

“I think so too, as clear as day; she loves him.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With regard to the second answer I acted in a different manner; I was impelled to answer clearly, and did so.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Then Traddles and I played a game or two at cribbage; and Dora singing to the guitar the while, it seemed to me as if our courtship and marriage were a tender dream of mine, and the night when I first listened to her voice were not yet over.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

"observing that the antennae" changed to "observing that the antennæ " "combats and disastrou scenes" changed to "combats and disastrous scenes" "M. de Reamur speaks of these executions" changed to "M. de Reaumur speaks of these executions" Letter IX "Only the few bees that not participated" changed to "Only the few bees that had not participated" Letter XI "these tumultous motions" changed to "these tumultuous motions" Letter XII "one antennæ " unchanged.
— from New observations on the natural history of bees by François Huber

To test this responsiveness, and feel it more keenly, just tell a child a dramatic story, and watch his face respond; or even recite a Mother-Goose rhyme with all the expression at your command.
— from As a Matter of Course by Annie Payson Call

On one of the anniversaries of the birth of Franklin, or of American liberty, the Abbé could not remember which, the Abbé composed a drinking song in honor of Franklin, and among the letters written by Franklin when he was in France was one to the Abbé in which wine is lauded in terms of humorous exaggeration.
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

With an apish grin, Alcaeus reeled across the room to bump against a table and chirp a drunken song.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Marguerite remained alone and thoughtful; the situation was beginning to take a clear and definite shape before her eyes; the King had permitted Saint Bartholomew's, Queen Catharine and the Duc de Guise had put it into execution.
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas

The woody mountains East of the town are called Aghá Danesí (sea of trees), an immense forest in which it is very easy to lose one’s way; here are trees towering into the skies, under which ten thousand sheep find shelter in their shade, which the sun’s rays cannot pierce.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

Then there is the Attic courtesy and democratic spirit leading him to avoid any assumption of superiority over those whose opinions he is examining.
— from The Greek Philosophers, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Alfred William Benn