She showed me her fat French poodle, that lay curled up on a silk cushion, and the two fine Italian paintings: which, however, she would not give me time to examine, but, saying I must look at them some other day, insisted upon my admiring the little jewelled watch she had purchased in Geneva; and then she took me round the room to point out sundry articles of vertu she had brought from Italy: an elegant little timepiece, and several busts, small graceful figures, and vases, all beautifully carved in white marble.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

So one day I used my stick to um.
— from In Clive's Command: A Story of the Fight for India by Herbert Strang

By “pleasure” or “satisfaction of desire” is usually meant something obvious, something passive, merely a supply of agreeable sensations to each of the five senses.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, January 1885 by Various

“Well, this is sentence of death, indeed, upon my talents for meddling; but never mind, I am so much more anxious to serve you than to distinguish myself, that I will—try.”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 6, June 1850 by Various

Susan had been wishing to make some sort of definite impression upon Mr. Stephen Graham Bocqueraz; wishing to remain in his mind as separated from the other women he had met to-night.
— from Saturday's Child by Kathleen Thompson Norris