Though I could not conquer my own unaccountable perversity, I had at least virtue enough to be heartily ashamed of it, and to end the discussion pleasantly by giving way, and promising to do all that was wanted of me.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

de [35] las auras, y han sido repetidos por el murmurio de los arroyos, y reproducidos por el eco de las colinas, y, antes que aplaudidos en los palacios del rico, han alegrado las vigilias en las cabañas de los pobres, y resonado en tierras remotas, entonces está medio ganado el pleito de la fama.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

He was humane, and loved Vincent exceedingly; but gave him long lectures on his alchemy, and on the Mahometan law, to which he used his utmost efforts to bring him over; promising, on that condition, to leave him all his riches, and to communicate to him, what he valued much more than his estate, all the secrets of his pretended science.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints, Vol. 7. July by Alban Butler

I remembered some of these books; they had always looked very enticing to me.
— from The Sand-Hills of Jutland by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

[1020] it was not until the period succeeding the Persian invasion that even triremes had become extensively employed; nor had any larger vessels ever been thought of.
— from History of Greece, Volume 10 (of 12) by George Grote

The Reactionists had at least vitality enough to make a death-struggle.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 81, July, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Suddenly they heard a loud voice exclaim: “There!
— from The Moving Picture Boys on the Coast Or, Showing Up the Perils of the Deep by Victor Appleton

None of them, to be sure, in my hearing at least, verbally expressed their gratification; but it was unavoidably betrayed by the increased cheerfulness of their demeanour toward each other, their frequent fraternal conferences, and their unwonted animation for several clays in issuing their orders.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville

I had the relation from his own mouth, when, but very modestly, he told me he thought 'twas an inspiration darted on a sudden into his thoughts, when the Duke of Saxony calling him into his closet one morning, with a face full of concern, shaking his head, and looking very earnestly, "What will become of us, doctor?" said the duke; "we shall all be undone at Frankfort-au-Main.
— from Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648. by Daniel Defoe

Turning his head right and left to discover some notice of where provender might be obtained, he observed the sailor lad, who had been in the shop when he went in, with his new purchase under his arm, looking very earnestly at some prints in a shop window.
— from The Poacher; Or, Joseph Rushbrook by Frederick Marryat

One evening while they were thus talking together Johnston became silent and fell into a sort of reverie, from which he presently roused himself, and looking very earnestly into Frank's face, asked him,— "Have you always been a Christian, Frank?"
— from The Young Woodsman; Or, Life in the Forests of Canada by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley