A chuckle came from the side of his bunk, and he saw Case standing there with a most exasperating grin on his face.
— from The River Motor Boat Boys on the Columbia; Or, The Confession of a Photograph by Harry Gordon

My wife and myself exchange glances of profound meaning and the slightest word either of us utters is a dagger which pierces the heart of the other through and through.
— from The Physiology of Marriage, Complete by Honoré de Balzac

"Besides the boarding and the selling of negroes, he will also make exchanges, giving or receiving such boot as the difference in age, character, qualifications, and appearance may notify.
— from Slavery and the Constitution by William I. (William Ingersoll) Bowditch

“I’ll trouble you, Mr Tinfoil, not to be so very witty at my expense,” growled out Winterbottom.
— from Jacob Faithful by Frederick Marryat

We have to regret the temporary loss of our general (W. H. F. Lee), who was wounded in the thigh, and the death of Colonel Williams (of our brigade), than whom a more elegant gentleman or braver soldier never lived.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier

If she were of a suspicious, prying disposition, given to weighing every word and marking every gesture of a delirious patient, what might we not fear from her circumspection when Carmel's memory asserted itself and she grew more precise in the frenzy which now exhausted itself in unintelligible cries, or the ceaseless repetition of her sister's name.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

In short, madam, you would not be one of those who ravish a poet's innocent words, and make 'em guilty of their own naughtiness (as 'tis termed) in spite of his teeth.
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley

Now at the time that Pompeii was destroyed there was a municipal election going on, and there were found on the walls numerous inscriptions formed with charcoal which were the substitutes then used for the literature and placards with which every election decorates our walls.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes

18th Ed., 1798. BAILEY, Rev. R. W., A. M.; "English Grammar," or "Manual of the English Language;" 12mo, pp.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown