She determined to call upon them and seek safety in numbers.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

“I found her in the condition you see her in, and promised her the assistance she stands in need of, and am persuaded that you, out of your own goodness, as well as upon my entreaty, will not abandon her.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

What I suffered then, and still suffer, is not for pen to write or paper to record.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

To be aware that a second stroke is not itself the first, I must retain something of the old sensation.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

A table with a board at the end to keep the glasses from falling off is required, then a special stove is needed, a pot with three compartments for the different degrees of strength of the paste, according as it is to be used for wood, paper, or stuff, a paring-knife to cut the cardboard, a mould to adjust it, a hammer to nail the steels, pincers, how the devil do I know what all?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The new scenes of the city absorbed their attention, but Uncle soon began shifting in his seat, and at last whispered to Aunt Sarah: "Say, I noticed that we went clear 'round a hull lot of blocks, and it 'pears ter me that we air goin' right backards to where we ought to go, or else this 'ere town has got two parts a blamed sight alike."
— from The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs by C. M. (Charles McClellan) Stevens

[284] Pepys refers on 5 August, 1684, to 'the generality of that vice, now running through the whole navy,' [285] and on 4 February, 1685, he writes, 'Till that vice be cured, which I find too far spread in the navy, both by sea and land, I do despair of ever seeing his Majesty's service therein to thrive, and as I have given one or two [74] instances of my care therein already, so shall I not fail by the grace of God to persevere in it, as far as I am able, till it be thoroughly cured, let it light where it will.'
— from Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy by J. R. (Joseph Robson) Tanner

Ay, by my heart, they are so sweet I near to fainted climbing the bank with them.
— from The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama In Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay