So he groaned on, until he had got into bed again, suffering, I have no doubt, a martyrdom; and then called us in, pretending to have just woke up from a refreshing sleep, and to produce a guinea from under his pillow.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He sprang to it, and then paused, and laid his hand upon his heart: I could hear his teeth grate with the convulsive action of his jaws; and his face was so ghastly to see that I grew alarmed both for his life and reason.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

So we parted, and I with Lord Bruncker to Sir P. Neale’s chamber, and there sat and talked awhile, Sir Edward Walker being there, and telling us how he hath lost many fine rowles of antiquity in heraldry by the late fire, but hath saved the most of his papers.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

So late by water home, taking a barrel of oysters with me, and at Greenwich went and sat with Madam Penington .... and made her undress her head and sit dishevilled all night sporting till two in the morning, and so away to my lodging and so to bed.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Yet the ungrateful Hashemite had changed with the change of fortune; he applauded the victory of Zendecan, and named the Seljukian sultan his temporal vicegerent over the Moslem world.
— 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

But first you must get to see him, and that will be a hard task; for the great Wizard does not like to see anyone, and he usually has his own way.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

“Yes,” said the engineer, “we will do all that it is humanly possible to do, but I repeat we shall not find him until he himself permits us.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

one for another Tied our men back to back, and thrown them all into the sea Told us he had not been in a bed in the whole seven years Too much of it will make her know her force too much Two shops in three, if not more, generally shut up Up, leaving my wife in bed, being sick of her months
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the agony of beholding a wife or daughter upon the table of the auctioneer, while every bid fell upon his heart like the groan of despair, small comfort would he find in the dull assurance of some heartless prophet, quite at "ease in Zion," that "ULTIMATELY Christianity would destroy slavery ."
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 4 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

There was a lurking suspicion in Billy Worth's mind that Fraley wished to wait until he, himself, could communicate with the officers, but he said nothing.
— from The Auto Boys' Mystery by James A. (James Andrew) Braden

For upon her—not upon her husband—would fall the heavy burden of poverty, and on her children the loss.
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

M. Saint-Réne Taillandier, one of the most conscientious of Maurice's biographers, adopts the same view, and is very severe upon his hero's conduct in this matter; while he shows us Justine "despising alike threats and promises, the victim of disgraceful intrigues, persecuted, thrown into the depths of a dungeon, guarding pure and intact the dignity of her art, her honour, and her name: a rare lesson for an actress to give to a corrupt society.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

The man on the other side of the desk, man hunter extraordinary, old servant of Government and State, sleuthhound without a peer, threw up his hands in a gesture of odd hopelessness.
— from The Bat by Mary Roberts Rinehart

she uttered her hard laugh—"knew a thing worth tu o' that."
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

He was a mighty chief, and a great taker up of suits, and so great a lawyer that no judgments were thought lawful unless he had a hand in them.
— from The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor by Unknown

A Yankee who used his hands in that way, a Yankee with a nose like that, a Yankee with a bald swathe down the middle of his crown and bunches of black, moth-eaten hair on either side!
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill

She threw up her hands when she saw me; didn't ask me in, but hollered for Grandfather to come, and come quick , which he did.
— from Fifteen Years with the Outcast by Fflorens Roberts