She is a woman that one may, that one must laugh at; but that one would not wish to slight.
— from Emma by Jane Austen
It set me on fire, and I could not avoid showing it by the convulsive twitchings of my loins and buttocks.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous
Father Gillenormand was thinking of Marius lovingly and bitterly; and, as usual, bitterness predominated.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
But he was too quick for me, sir, so I only got one on; and then, the hound, he turns on me like a blessed hyena, sir, and begins a-chawin' of me windpipe.
— from Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew
He turned on more lights and began to scan the rows of books.
— from Brood of the Witch-Queen by Sax Rohmer
The one most loud and bitter against the President was Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts.
— from The Life of Lyman Trumbull by Horace White
By main strength the old man lifted and bore him to the house and hurried off to the station, near which the neighbourhood physician and surgeon lived.
— from Sister Dolorosa, and Posthumous Fame by James Lane Allen
Well! this is, like many petty troubles of married life, a blessing for some one.
— from Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part by Honoré de Balzac
The one sort of these also are for the most part taken strictly according to the letter, the other more largely and beneficially after their intendment and meaning.
— from Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison by William Harrison
I had loved her always; when it began I did not know ... and I did not care; all that interested me now was to think of myself, loving and beloved.
— from The Making of a Saint by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
"I am that," replied the old man, looking at Blanche for the first time; and then, as if satisfied with what he saw, he repeated much more enthusiastically, "'Deed an' I am that," with a nod and a smile at Blanche.
— from Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls by Margaret Bruce Clarke
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