Day after day he roamed about in the arctic cold, his soul filled full of bitterness and despair.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

My breathing comes quicker and quicker; my body trembles, all my bowels are stirred, and my face and forehead feel as though a cobweb had settled on them.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When the Kid heard him, looking through a chink, he said to the Wolf: “I hear a sound like my Mother’s voice , but you are a deceiver, and an enemy to me; under my Mother’s voice you are seeking to drink my blood, and stuff yourself with my flesh.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

And you told him all that Anne Catherick had said to you—all that you told me?" "Yes, all.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

"I used often to wish I had been something else than a clergyman," he said to Lydgate, "but perhaps it will be better to try and make as good a clergyman out of myself as I can.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

For the former, it is certain that heresies and schisms are, of all others, the greatest scandals, yea, more than corruption of manners; for as in the natural body a wound or solution of continuity is worse than a corrupt humor, so in the spiritual; so that nothing doth so much keep men out of the church, and drive men out of the church, as breach of unity; and therefore, whensoever it cometh to that pass that one saith, “Ecce in Deserto,” 69 another saith, “Ecce in penetralibus;” 70 that is, when some men seek Christ in the conventicles of heretics, and others in an outward face of a church, that voice had need continually to sound in men’s ears, “nolite exire,” “go not out.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

The old man took off his cap with a button at the top and crossed himself several times.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

‘You see,’ he said, wiping his head, and breathing with difficulty, ‘she hasn’t taken much to any companions here; she hasn’t taken kindly to any particular acquaintances and friends, not to mention sweethearts.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

It was as though a cloud had settled on his brain and dulled it; which was, perhaps, an explanation why from that last moment of his crowning degradation he had behaved like an utter fool.
— from Violet Forster's Lover by Richard Marsh

So saying, in spite of Bellissima’s tears and cries, he stabbed the King to the heart with the diamond sword.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

The allied counteroffensive having started on July 18, the division was hurried into line near Montron (east of La Ferté Milon) to meet it.
— from Histories of two hundred and fifty-one divisions of the German army which participated in the war (1914-1918) by United States. War Department. General Staff

We will be in New York in an hour's time, and can have something at a quick lunch restaurant," replied Mr. Parke very seriously.
— from The Little Washingtons' Travels by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Before the procession sets out, there are certain heralds sent round the town, each having a bell in his hand which he rings continually, and at the same time calls out with all his might this doggrel couplet:— “El Rosario de la Aurora!
— from Roman Catholicism in Spain by Anonymous

Tall and commanding, he stood before the court with nobility and kindness in his face and eyes, bringing to mind a handsome cultured Lincoln.
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

And if he be one who takes his opinions upon trust, how can we imagine that he should renounce those tenets which time and custom have so settled in his mind, that he thinks them self-evident, and of an unquestionably certainty; or which he takes to be impressions he has received from God himself, or from men sent by him?
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 2 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 3 and 4 by John Locke

The said parties of the second part, their survivors and successors, trustees as aforesaid, in all their acts and doings in the execution and performance of said contract, and in the execution of their several trusts and conditions herein set forth, shall act by the concurrent assent of four of their number, expressed in writing, or by yea and nay vote, at a meeting of said trustees, either or both of which shall be recorded in a book of proceedings of said trustees, kept for the purpose by their secretary, and not otherwise.
— from Monopolies and the People by D. C. Cloud