“It is a circumstance which Darcy could not wish to be generally known, because if it were to get round to the lady's family, it would be an unpleasant thing.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The papists being apprized of the design, detached some troops to defend a defile, through which the protestants must make their approach; but these were defeated, compelled to abandon the pass, and forced to retreat to La Torre.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

And at last, not being able to retaliate, because the pilum-throwers were out of reach, and their weapons kept pouring in, some of them, in the extremity of their distress and helplessness, threw themselves with desperate courage and reckless violence upon the enemy, and thus met a voluntary death; while others gave ground step by step towards their own friends, whom they threw into confusion by this manifest acknowledgment of their panic.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

One afternoon, after twenty minutes of desperate efforts to annihilate each other according to set rules that did not permit kicking, striking below the belt, nor hitting when one was down, Cheese-Face, panting for breath and reeling, offered to call it quits.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

I cannot bear to think of what did come, upon that memorable night; of what must come again, if I go on.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

180 There is no reason to suppose that the people of these towns were directly concerned in the depredations along the frontier at this period, [ 74 ] the mischief being done by those farther to the south, in conjunction with the Creeks.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

For transfer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Parker Pillsbury, Susan B. Anthony, Theodore Tilton, Paulina Wright Davis, Phoebe W. Couzins, Edwin A. Studwell, Mrs. Studwell, Mrs. John J. Merritt, Mrs. Robert Dale Owen, Margaret E. Winchester, Dr. Clemence S. Lozier, Charlotte B. Wilbour, Eleanor Kirk, Jennie Collins, Elizabeth B. Phelps, Miss Chichester, Mrs. S.B. Morse—18.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

The beautiful yacht was soon well under the steamer's lee, and the ladies watched with dazed curiosity the work of the tattered, filthy, greasy mob who bounded, and strained, and performed their prodigies of skill on the thofts and gunwales of the little boats.
— from A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman

But to-day my heart felt particularly heavy as I reflected that mamma would, doubtless, come at the appointed hour and expect me,—and with some bitterness I thought that the springtime was so very short, that the hay would soon need to be cut, and that perhaps there would not be, the whole summer long, such another glorious evening as this one.
— from The Story of a Child by Pierre Loti

"What shall we do?" cried Betty Morris.
— from The Red City: A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by S. Weir (Silas Weir) Mitchell

“And I'm going to look like this when Dan comes home next summer,” resumed Betty, sedately.
— from The Battle Ground by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

{237} {239} VIII GRANADA Photo by J. Lacoste, Madrid CATHEDRAL OF GRANADA West front Kennst du das Land we die Citronen blühn, Im dunkeln Land die Goldorangen glühn, Ein sanfter Wind vom
— from Cathedrals of Spain by John A. (John Allyne) Gade

By their green river, who doth change His birth-name just below, Orchard and croft and full-stored grange Nursed by his pastoral flow.
— from Poems by Matthew Arnold

On looking at the dead body, quite smooth and white, and also quite dead, he said, "Ah, never mind; he was dead cured ."
— from Health: Five Lay Sermons to Working-People by John Brown