And, when I ... came forward, more timid than ... a little child, she did not run away ...
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The box being taken away, lord Chandois said, Seeing there is no remedy, despatch him quickly.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

For courtesy wins woman all as well As valour may, but he that closes both Is perfect, he is Lancelot—taller indeed, Rosier and comelier, thou—but say I loved This knightliest of all knights, and cast thee back Thine own small saw, "We love but while we may," Well then, what answer?' He that while she spake, Mindful of what he brought to adorn her with, The jewels, had let one finger lightly touch The warm white apple of her throat, replied, 'Press this a little closer, sweet, until— Come, I am hungered and half-angered—meat, Wine, wine—and I will love thee to the death, And out beyond into the dream to come.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The brig was sheering swiftly and giddily through a long, cresting swell.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

But that appears like casting such a man away."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Timon gave the diamond to a lord called Sempronius, and the lord exclaimed, “O, he's the very soul of bounty.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And Teeth a la Chinoise—— SIR BENJAMIN.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

And a soft broad band of gold ran right round her just below her lovely breast, that lay held in its gold cup like a great double billow made of the creamy lather of the sea, prevented from escaping as it swelled up by the delicious dam formed by the curve of [71] her shoulders meeting the soft bulge of the upper part of her rounded arms, which came out from each side and seemed as it were to wave gently in the air like creeper sprays, free and unconfined, and not like her feet, chained down, but absolutely bare of any ornament at all.
— from The Substance of a Dream by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

Upon the whole, supposing Easter Island to have undergone a late misfortune from volcanic fires, its inhabitants are more to be pitied than any less civilized society, being acquainted with a number of conveniences, comforts, and luxuries of life, which they formerly possessed, and of which the remembrance must embitter the loss.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14 by Robert Kerr

“Yes—wasn’t that a lovely cake?” she agreed.
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

Scarce had the last word left her lip, When a light, boyish form, with trip Fantastic, up the green walk came, Prankt in gay vest to which the flame Of every lamp he past, or blue Or green or crimson, lent its hue; As tho' a live chameleon's skin He had despoiled, to robe him in.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

The afternoon light came soft through the trellis, and you could not have looked for a fairer picture of settled ease.
— from Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan

Miss Pelham, the daughter of the prime minister, was one of the most notorious gamblers of her time, and Lady Cowper speaks in her Diary of sittings at Court, of which the lowest stake was 200 guineas.
— from The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis