To-day you do me the honor—which I never shall forget—of pressing your hand upon me, although no stranger could distinguish me from one of my workmen.
— from Country Luck by John Habberton

'If you would tell us the question, perhaps it would help us make a noise,' said Dane with the same placid gravity.
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

Remorse deep as my nature and immovable as my sin, has gotten hold upon me, and nothing short of death, and death in the very shape from which I fled in such a cowardly manner, will ever satisfy my soul or allay that burning sense of shame and regret which makes me fear the eye of man and quake at the thought of eternal justice.
— from The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green

Then his glance rested on a man, who had also figured in his uncertain memories, and now sat not far away from him.
— from The Greater Power by Harold Bindloss