It would be no more true to say of Mr. Bigler that he was or could be embarrassed, than to say that a brass counterfeit dollar-piece would change color when refused; the question annoyed him a little, in Mr. Bolton’s presence.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

I have asked questions about him and learned something.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

He remembered the steamer, the railway engine, and the broad river, which he had dimly seen the day before, and now he made haste to dress, to run to the quay and have a look at them.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The young man glanced quickly at her and laughed.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It was his intention to secure himself against them, and this he would have quickly accomplished had Alexander lived.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

708 “Lie quietly, and hear a little more; Nay, do not struggle, for thou shalt not rise: To make thee hate the hunting of the boar, Unlike myself thou hear’st me moralize, 712 Applying this to that, and so to so, For love can comment upon every woe.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

While he was thus soliloquizing, old Adam, the grave digger, was standing silently in the road where they had set him down, then suddenly he turned abruptly—not toward his home—but as quickly as his aged limbs could carry him back over the ground the coach had just traversed, praying to Heaven to guide him to the spot where he had dug the lonely grave of the beautiful, hapless young bride of an hour.
— from Mischievous Maid Faynie by Laura Jean Libbey

"Young men would be young men," he said, "and 'twas no wonder that a dashing young fellow, like the Heir of Linne, should wish to see the world, rather than stay quietly at home and look after his land.
— from Tales From Scottish Ballads by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Wilson) Grierson

but I understood you had been brought up very quietly, and had always lived in the country, and all that sort of thing.
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth

whar it's cool an' quiet, an' have a little visit."
— from The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage by Alice MacGowan

But whatever Lancelot saw, or thought he saw, I cannot say that it brought him any nearer to a solution of the question; and he at last ended by a sulky acquiescence in Sam Weller’s memorable dictum: ‘Who it is I can’t say; but all I can say is that somebody ought to be wopped for this!’
— from Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley

Then as the doctor looked quickly at her and laughed, she flushed.
— from The Second Violin by Grace S. (Grace Smith) Richmond

After the wind and tide had defeated the midnight attempt made by Jones to capture the "Drake," that craft had remained quietly at her anchorage, little suspecting that the bay of Carrickfergus had held so dangerous a neighbor.
— from The Naval History of the United States. Volume 1 by Willis J. (Willis John) Abbot

The meal ended, his speech concluded, all questions answered, he at last rose, and with a low bow said: "And now, gentlemen, I leave the proposition with you.
— from Triple Spies by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell