“Read it, read it,” said he, “it will give you pleasure; only a few lines—will not take you long; read it to Emma.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

'I repeat it,' said he, 'I would not teach you to become insensible, if I could; I would only warn you of the evils of susceptibility, and point out how you may avoid them.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

He used them as creatures of an inferior race; in short, he gaffles his four animals, and makes murderers of them; out of cowards fitly manufacturing bravos.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

If Kisotchka had laughed in response I should have gone on in this style: ‘You had better look out, Kisotchka, or some officer or actor will be carrying you off!’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

We know that it can perfectly well withstand a little more heat or cold, dampness or dryness, for elsewhere it ranges into slightly hotter or colder, damper or drier districts.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

He gave me his funeral oration on Prince Eugene, and in return I sent him the ‘Pandects’.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Like benefactors in romances, I should have left you without seeing you again, but that would have been a virtue beyond my strength, because I am a weak and vain man, fond of the tender, kind, and thankful glances of my fellow-creatures.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I replied, 'I stand here in this position on account of my faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

It was therefore not surprising that when the "red bureaucracy," avowedly founded on the doctrines of Marx, came to be set up in Russia, it should have been largely led by Jews.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I remember I seized him by the arm; but he looked quietly and proudly at me with an air of immense authority.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Why, sir, here's your thirty shillings: I have paid you eighteen-pence a week, and therefore there is reason I should have my cow.
— from Robert Greene: [Six Plays] by Robert Greene

Then I reckon I scared him some."
— from The Inside of the Cup — Volume 04 by Winston Churchill

Had she pouted, or sulked, or burst into reproaches, I should have cared little—in fact, an outburst might have relieved me.
— from The Maids of Paradise by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

"Then you will have the less difficulty in retorting it," said Harrington, coolly.
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers

I remained ten days longer at Merzifún employing my time in collecting men, and on the 27th of Moharrem left it for the farm of Murteza Páshá, which I reached in six hours.
— from Narrative of Travels in Europe, Asia, and Africa, in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. II by Evliya Çelebi

“I remember it,” said Helon; “it is written, Ezra read upon the open place before the Water-gate, from the morning until mid-day, and 234 praised the Lord the great God; and the people answered Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands, and bowed their heads and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.”
— from Helon's Pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Volume 1 (of 2) A picture of Judaism, in the century which preceded the advent of our Savior. by Friedrich Strauss

The average woman [Pg 239] seems to think that she is most lovely when her sophistication of her complexion is most adroitly concealed—when the poudre de riz is rubbed in so hard that it is almost invisible, and the penciling of eyes and lips is perfectly realistic.
— from Prejudices, Second Series by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken

What did it matter that scarcely any one saw what they saw, or, seeing it, realized its splendid, hopeful meaning?
— from Two Little Pilgrims' Progress: A Story of the City Beautiful by Frances Hodgson Burnett