The gentleman aimed the ball once or twice and then threw it up the strand towards Cissy Caffrey but it rolled down the slope and stopped right under Gerty’s skirt near the little pool by the rock.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

"I wouldn't tell anyone except you, Mother, but I really do need advice, for if John goes on much longer I might as well be widowed," replied Mrs. Brooke, drying her tears on Daisy's bib with an injured air.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“Yes, sir, yesterday, when my cousin was caressing it in her mouth,” replied the frightened youth, “but I really don’t know how it happened, and did not mean any harm.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

The billows, in rolling depictured the skies, And mingled, in solemn and mystical strain, The all-mighteous chords of their luscious refrain With the sun-set's colours reflexed in mine eyes.
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

"Not so," thought I, but I restrained deprecation, and sat quietly enough.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I did not want to find her aged and broken; I really dreaded it.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Bone is rather dusty, sir.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

But, in reality, dancing, if it be a mere trifle, is one to which great minds have not been ashamed to stoop.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

I often wished to speak, but I really did not know what to say.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But in religious disputes this is never the case; and Philip II.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Both bodies I reported daily in the Memphis Appeal ; wrote them up in a “Pilgrim” letter to the Congregationalist , and gave their items to the Advance and Christian Union .
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 2, February, 1881 by Various

Come, Winifred." "Mother," said Winifred, as they left the bakery, "I really do wish I knew that little girl.
— from The Children on the Top Floor by Nina Rhoades

Haussoulier, B., in Recueil d'Inscriptions Juridiques Grecques .
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

And if you want to see your work in print I'll bring it round dis very afternoon."
— from The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt

"Well, now it's all settled, I shall not need to do so," rejoined the other; "but I really don't see, Harding, why you should so much wish me to stay away."
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

I am now signalizing the ships at Plymouth to join me; but, I rather doubt their ability to get to sea.
— from The Letters of Lord Nelson to Lady Hamilton, Vol II. With A Supplement Of Interesting Letters By Distinguished Characters by Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount

“Then you think poor Beryl is really dead?”
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux

The Vicar loved his parish well, And well was he loved by it; Religion did not him compel To harass and defy it No price he charged for Heavenly love, No discount on Resurgo ; His conscience told him—one side-shove Is worth ten kicks a tergo .
— from Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

"Because it reacted differently at different times.
— from The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe