After another interval he added, turning toward the figure in the arm-chair: “And this is Miss Mattie Silver...” Mrs. Hale, tender soul, had pictured me as lost in the Flats and buried under a snow-drift; and so lively was her satisfaction on seeing me safely restored to her the next morning that I felt my peril had caused me to advance several degrees in her favour.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

no, father: nothing will induce me to go there, it makes me shudder!”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

2. P - Kt 3 R - Kt 4 bringing the Rook to attack the King's side Pawns so as to force the King to that side to defend them, and thus indirectly making more secure the position of Black's Queen's side Pawns.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

The hunter was frightened, and felt sure that it meant mischief, so he hurried on down the mountain and took the shortest trail back to the camp to get there before the old man.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

When anything had to be done, it was always the elder who was forced to do it; but if his father bade him fetch anything when it was late, or in the night-time, and the way led through the churchyard, or any other dismal place, he answered "Oh, no, father, I'll not go there, it makes me shudder!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

There I met M. Sfeer and a certain secretary, an intimate friend of his; both send their compliments to you.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“It is a mistake, sir,” said Fanny instantly; “it must be a mistake, it cannot be true; it must mean some other people.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

[9] In reference to introspection M. Maeterlinck speaks of Ruysbroeck as "the one analytical mystic."
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

The law, though it may merit some praise, served rather to display than to alleviate the public distress.
— 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

Let me tell you two or three facts that in my mind stand for a great deal.
— from The American Missionary, Volume 34, No. 11, November 1880 by Various

In truth, it makes me sad.
— from The Lucky Man by Monsieur (Michel) Baron

Our scutcheoned oriel stained was overstrewn Of Dawn's air-jewels; then I sang a strain Of sleep that in my memory strives again: "Ethereal limbed the lovely Sleep should sit, Her starbeam locks with some vague splendor lit, Like that the glow-worm's emerald radiance sheds Thro' twilight dew-drops globed on lily-beds.
— from Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

And then there is much more study in it than appears; that was brought home to me once.
— from Auguste Rodin: The Man - His Ideas - His Works by Camille Mauclair

I will not detain your attention with relating all that occurred at this period—suffice it to say that I made my suit and was successful; it is true that the old man, who was her guardian, hesitated, and asked several questions respecting my state of mind.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

And I have never had any trouble in my mind since then.
— from The Life of Jesus Christ for the Young, Vol. 3 by Richard Newton

With that oakum taste in my mouth?" sputtered young Holmes.
— from The Grammar School Boys of Gridley; or, Dick & Co. Start Things Moving by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock