The little servant happening to be entering the fortress with two hot rolls, I passed through the postern and crossed the drawbridge in her company, and so came without announcement into the presence of Wemmick as he was making tea for himself and the Aged.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Some of her neighbors had relations living in Philadelphia, and it seemed to them somehow a guarantee of respectability to have relations in Philadelphia.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

My second test was connected with the fact that, just before I went upstairs to her room, I put myself into a yogic trance state in order to be one with her in telepathic and televisic rapport.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Seven of these he restored in printing his second edition, as noted on p. 174.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Therefore would I be apt to believe, for less than a hundred francs, that those are the very same stones by means whereof Deucalion and Pyrrha restored the human race, in peopling with men and women the world, which a little before that had been drowned in the overflowing waves of a poetical deluge.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Think what it is to a boy, to grow up to manhood in the [Pg 149] belief that without any merit or any exertion of his own, though he may be the most frivolous and empty or the most ignorant and stolid of mankind, by the mere fact of being born a male he is by right the superior of all and every one of an entire half of the human race: including probably some whose real superiority to himself he has daily or hourly occasion to feel; but even if in his whole conduct he habitually follows a woman's guidance, still, if he is a fool, she thinks that of course she is not, and cannot be, equal in ability and judgment to himself; and if he is not a fool, he does worse—he sees that she is superior to him, and believes that, notwithstanding her superiority, he is entitled to command and she is bound to obey.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

Foreseeing, however, that it would not be always in his power to console her on these terms, he resolved, if possible, to divide her affection, which now glowed upon him too intensely; and, with that view, whenever she complained of the vapours or dejection, he prescribed, and even insisted upon her swallowing certain cordials of the most palatable composition, without which he never travelled; and these produced such agreeable reveries and flow of spirits, that she gradually became enamoured of intoxication; while he encouraged the pernicious passion, by expressing the most extravagant applause and admiration at the wild irregular sallies it produced.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

By the indulgence of the Angeli, he was appointed governor or duke of Trebizond: 21 211 his birth gave him ambition, the revolution independence; and, without changing his title, he reigned in peace from Sinope to the Phasis, along the coast of the Black Sea.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

These had remained in Paris, and the hospital under canvas, when set up, excited great admiration.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

We have had considerable exercise,” here he nodded at Carl with a comical look, and Carl understood that he referred in part to his contest with the tramp.
— from Driven from Home; Or, Carl Crawford's Experience by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

She gave Sherringham a reason for this fear, and he thought her reason innocently pretentious.
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

These were noteworthy, being a fruit of Sir George's observation on the human race in primitive lands.
— from The Romance of a Pro-Consul Being the Personal Life and Memoirs of the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, K.C.B. by James Milne

“No; it is just because he is so sure of your innocence, that he remains in Paris.
— from Within an Inch of His Life by Emile Gaboriau

He is believed to have remained in prison for fourteen years.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

They had ridden in pretty hard, their horses were lathered all over.
— from Martin Hyde, the Duke's Messenger by John Masefield

On my return home I proceeded to count the money—as Mr. Lebeziatnikov will bear witness—and after counting two thousand three hundred roubles I put the rest in my pocket-book in my coat pocket.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Remember that, Helen; remember it particularly, will you?
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik