The duchess came out splendidly attired, and Don Quixote, in pure courtesy and politeness, held the rein of her palfrey, though the duke wanted not to allow him; and at last they reached a wood that lay between two high mountains, where, after occupying various posts, ambushes, and paths, and distributing the party in different positions, the hunt began with great noise, shouting, and hallooing, so that, between the baying of the hounds and the blowing of the horns, they could not hear one another.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He gnashed his teeth and smote the air, and looking wildly round, with eyes which gleamed through the darkness, cried aloud: ‘I am trampled down and ruined.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

He had none of Addison's delicate satire and humor, and in his fury at what he thought was false he was generally unsympathetic and often harsh; but we must not forget that Thackeray--who knew society much better than did Carlyle--gave a very unflattering picture of it in Vanity Fair and The Book of Snobs .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If then least moving of the center, make More, then if whole hell belch'd, the world to shake, What must this do, centers distracted so, That wee see not what to beleeve or know?
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The minister looked at her for an instant, with all that violence of passion, which—intermixed in more shapes than one with his higher, purer, softer qualities—was, in fact, the portion of him which the devil claimed, and through which he sought to win the rest.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Assuredly The Doge can not suspect you?
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Think of the poor lepers annoyed with this dirty comrade!
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 16 by Robert Louis Stevenson

She studied his hands, observed the fingers, with the despairing conviction that this was not the man; too lean and too coarse and too hard; and her rage began to burn against destiny.
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

He could now assail the crowded ranks of the doomed column in front and on both flanks.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

His letters to his son, written and corrected in his own hand, give a very flattering portrait, and perhaps a very authentic one, of his character in almost all his domestic relations, without much claim, but also without much pretension, to style—the sin of that age, and not less of the succeeding: they are not without a certain tinge of the [I-745, I-746] elegance of manner, which, though by no means his apanage, had more or less been contracted in those dissolute circles which had inspired Hamilton.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Each may be able to do certain things better than the other, so there will ever be a friendly rivalry for good.
— from The Man: A Story of To-day by Elbert Hubbard

That you, Jimmie?” “Yes,” said Jimmie Dale and sat down limply in the desk chair.
— from The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard