Madame de Villefort shuddered at the sight of that cold countenance, that resolute tone, and the awfully strange preliminaries.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Full in my view set all the bright abode, And make my soul quit Abelard for God.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Then [pg 251] along the path for a mile or so by the river, which roared over its rocky bed between steep schistose hills, and then climbed a very stiff ascent, trying in the extreme under the burning August sun.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

We are trying to do our duty in a very sad and terrible case; we can only do as we deem best.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

But it is not the fashion of lovers to be accoutred in such dangling vestments, so as to have their shirts flagging down over their knees, without breeches, and with a long robe of a dark brown mingled hue, which is a colour never used in Talarian garments amongst any persons of honour, quality, or virtue.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I entreat you to answer me very soon as to my journey to Paris.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

And I have often experienced, and so have a thousand others, that on the first inclining towards sleep, we have been suddenly awakened with a most violent start; and that this start was gener Page 255 ally preceded by a sort of dream of our falling down a precipice: whence does this strange motion arise, but from the too sudden relaxation of the body, which by some mechanism in nature restores itself by as quick and vigorous an exertion of the contracting power of the muscles?
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

As he quitted the room, Elizabeth felt how improbable it was that they should ever see each other again on such terms of cordiality as had marked their several meetings in Derbyshire; and as she threw a retrospective glance over the whole of their acquaintance, so full of contradictions and varieties, sighed at the perverseness of those feelings which would now have promoted its continuance, and would formerly have rejoiced in its termination.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Janetta noticed that her breath was very short, and that she leaned against the gate-post for support.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

It is very well known that my ears are open to any just complaint from any tenant, and yet I am very seldom appealed to, considering the great number of tenants; and whenever a complaint is well-founded, it is promptly and effectually redressed, at scarcely any expense of costs.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

They are very silent, and their steps are feline.
— from The Romance of the Coast by James Runciman

Owing to the narrowness of the space, the heads could only have been very small, and they must have been protruding and facing the spectator.
— from Mycenæ: a narrative of researches and discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann

I said, to none more wonderful than a village school; and that this I had indeed learned well, but on the cobbler's bench.
— from Rosin the Beau by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Usually these beds of umber are near the surface, though covered by an overburden of [106] vegetable soil, and the operation of working them may be called quarrying rather than mining, being of a superficial and simple character, often only amounting to small pits.
— from Pigments, Paint and Painting: A practical book for practical men by George Terry

He was very sad at times, because he knew scarce any one, and those that he did know did not love him.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

With these words he left the apartment, and very soon afterwards the house.
— from Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi

I read the story myself finally, aloud and very shrilly, as that unfortunate man bumped along.
— from Margarita's Soul: The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty by Josephine Daskam Bacon

Stones thrown into the vertical shaft at the bottom can be heard striking the sides for three or four seconds before coming to rest.
— from Archeological Investigations Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 76 by Gerard Fowke