“There's my room with the outer door—” “That's it,” said the elder man, promptly, looking at Montgomery; and all three of us went towards the enclosure.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The lovely hues and odours of flowers, the softened glitter of thousands of electric lamps shaded with rose-colour, the bewildering brilliancy of women's clothes and jewels, the exquisite music pouring like a rippling stream through the magnificent reception-rooms, all combined to create a magical effect of sensuous beauty and luxury; and as Innocent, accompanied by the sweet-faced old-fashioned lady who played the part of chaperone with such gentle dignity, approached her hostess, she was a little dazzled and nervous.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

It will be a great delight to me to see you and Mrs Blackwood again, and I feel this is to be my farewell visit to England, my possibly last appearance before retiring from the boards for ever.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II by Charles James Lever

And here I beg, once for all, to enter my protest loudly against the manner in which these conveyances are conducted.
— from North America — Volume 1 by Anthony Trollope

"To tell truth, Robin," answered the clerk, comically, "you scarce gave me pause to eat my pie, let alone announce myself.
— from Robin Hood by Paul Creswick

Meantime it will please you to look upon the sports; but first to enter my poor lodging and take your morning's cup.
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

“I am afraid I have interrupted a confidential interview,” he began; “and I ought perhaps to explain—” Mrs. Presty listened absently; preoccupied by the fear that Herbert would provoke a dangerous disclosure, and by the difficulty of discovering a means of preventing it.
— from The Evil Genius: A Domestic Story by Wilkie Collins

When a young doctor has begun to realize that he can talk to the entire medical profession, life and study takes an entirely new aspect.
— from The Cleveland Medical Gazette, Vol. 1, No. 5, March 1886 by Various

what deep, religious happiness I felt, when I found myself suddenly transported to the centre of the imposing grandeur of the seas-half-way between the ocean and the sky!—I seemed to come forth from a place of thick darkness; for the first time, for many years, I felt my heart beat freely in my bosom; for the first time, I felt myself master of my own thoughts, and ventured to examine my past life, as from the summit of a mountain, one looks down into a gloomy vale.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 05 by Eugène Sue