These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul, and lifted it to heaven.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

And I looked at them, my heart filled with extraordinary emotions, my soul touched with an indescribable melancholy.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

These visions faded when I perused, for the first time, those poets whose effusions entranced my soul and lifted it to heaven.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A local tradition, which evidently exaggerates matters, says that two thousand horses and fifteen hundred men were buried in the hollow road of Ohain.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Here Arabella, making a full stop, fixed her eyes upon her woman, expecting every moment she would begin the desired narrative—But finding she continued silent longer than she thought was necessary for recalling the several circumstances of the story into her mind— I find, said she, it will be necessary to caution you against making your audience wait too long for your relation.
— from The Female Quixote; or, The Adventures of Arabella, v. 1-2 by Charlotte Lennox

Vergnügen zu sein, und er machte ein so verzweifeltes Gesicht, als wollte 10-2 er zu sich selber sagen: „Das war wieder einmal ein mordsdummer Streich von dir, daß du dich hast da hinauf locken lassen, 10-3 du hättest 10-4 auch die Berge von unten ansehen können.
— from Eingeschneit: Eine Studentengeschichte by Emil Frommel

Noble defenders of Abolition, you whose earnest eyes may scan these pages, I call to you with a tearful voice ; I pray you to go on in your glorious cause; flag not, faint not, prosecute it before heaven and against man.
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

That the lash and the gantlope were unsparingly used in Marlborough's army there can be no doubt, and that they were employed even more savagely at home can be shown by direct evidence;
— from A History of the British Army, Vol. 1 First Part—to the Close of the Seven Years' War by Fortescue, J. W. (John William), Sir

I am proud to say I do and in regard to what I think of him Conductor Tobin’s words exactly express my sentiments.”
— from Cab and Caboose: The Story of a Railroad Boy by Kirk Munroe

She wrote in a most grateful strain; she was evidently even more surprised than pleased with the offer for Phoebe.
— from The Maidens' Lodge; or, None of Self and All of Thee (In the Reign of Queen Anne) by Emily Sarah Holt

The camp fires burned brightly all the night, and the sentinels kept vigilant watch, expecting every moment some sudden alarm.
— from King Alfred of England Makers of History by Jacob Abbott