Then turning to Zoraida, while I and another of the Christians held him fast by both arms, lest he should do some mad act, he said to her, “Infamous girl, misguided maiden, whither in thy blindness and madness art thou going in the hands of these dogs, our natural enemies?
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

"Mr. Audley may be as you say, merely eccentric; but he has talked to me this evening in a manner that has filled me with absolute terror, and I believe that he is going mad.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

I am very happy still, I ought to feel happier perhaps than I do, but you cannot think how it grieves me sometimes to see him alter so.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

This he gave me, and indeed encouraged me to come into the house itself, giving me a corner where I might sleep, without being in anybody's way.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

He was very desirous of hearing my adventures, which I assured him I had not time to relate, but told him in general, my circumstances were very good, and that I hoped to see him when I should not be in such a hurry as at present.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

But I'm so used to talking to Mumps, an' he doesn't mind a bit o' cheating, when it's them skinflint women, as haggle an' haggle, an' 'ud like to get their flannel for nothing, an' 'ud niver ask theirselves how I got my dinner out on't.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The Stork, in turn, the Fox invites, And brings her liver and her lights In a tall flagon, finely minced, And thrusting in her beak, convinced The Fox that he in grief must fast, While she enjoy’d the rich repast.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Meanwhile Don Quixote shut himself up in his room with Sancho, and when they were alone he said to him, "It grieves me greatly, Sancho, that thou shouldst have said, and sayest, that I took thee out of thy cottage, when thou knowest I did not remain in my house.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The indignation which this harangue inspired gave me spirits to support my reverse of fortune, and to tell him I despised his mean selfish disposition so much that I would rather starve than be beholden to him for one single meal.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Most of our old churches have at some time been paved with these encaustic tiles; but in all cases they have in great measure been destroyed or removed when other beauties of God's house have been defaced, but often too where the hand of man has spared, the hand of Time has obliterated.
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

Deborah's health, too, about this time was not overgood, for, a few months later, he writes to her: "It gives me Concern to receive such frequent Acc t s of your being indisposed; but we both of us grow in Years, and must expect our Constitutions, though tolerably good in themselves, will by degrees give way to the Infirmities of Age."
— from Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, Volume 1 (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings by Wiliam Cabell Bruce

she says, in a transport of contemptuous incredulity at my suggestion that here is good missionary ground, “I have had enough of that!
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

Then, and not till then, it began to look as though the hitherto invincible Gregg might have the worst of it.
— from Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War by James Harvey Kidd

The house is gone; Mr. Macdonald is dead, and the family dispersed.
— from Early Days in North Queensland by Edward Palmer

The days being long, and low water in the harbour, it gave me a very good opportunity of examining it.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

"Thank Heaven I got married," she wrote, "and fell in love with my husband."
— from His Second Wife by Ernest Poole

It is such a miracle of Chinese construction that it is somewhat difficult to get his idea; still I think I see that he is grateful for past favors; that he misses us; that the boarders are going on "very happy and joy;" that he is glad mamma is better, and pleased with the teacher I selected for him.
— from Polly Oliver's Problem by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Archangel bowed, not like a modern beau, But with a graceful oriental bend, Pressing one radiant arm just where below [gr] The heart in good men is supposed to tend; He turned as to an equal, not too low, But kindly; Satan met his ancient friend
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron