I went over all the informal girls I could recall who had been worth the effort to cultivate them, either charming or wise or sensitive, and my bag, unlike Chopin's or what George Moore reported his, was discouragingly slim.
— from San Cristóbal de la Habana by Joseph Hergesheimer

'Mr Harleigh,' interrupted Ellis, with strong emotion, 'there is no medium, in a situation such as mine, between unlimited confidence, or unbroken taciturnity: my confidence I cannot give you; it is out of my power—ask me, then, nothing!'
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

"I've never seen a man before, up close," Lisa said.
— from Homo Inferior by Mari Wolf

As soon as might be, up came the poor folk from the valley to see how their hermit had fared through the snow and the stormy weather.
— from Japanese Fairy Tales by Grace James

Accordingly, the remainder of the night was not devoted to sleep, but to the intensive building of sangars on the new defensive line, and the preparations of bivouac areas in such few spots as might be under cover from view and from fire.
— from With the British Army in The Holy Land by H. O. (Henry Osmond) Lock

"Now, Gertrude," I resumed, when she had consented to an easy-chair and had permitted me to close the door, [100] "whatever the situation and misunderstandings between us, can't we discuss them"—and I ventured a smile—"more informally, in a freer spirit?"
— from The Book of Susan: A Novel by Lee Wilson Dodd

At this time a peasant was continually passing and repassing between Villa Seca and Madrid, bringing us cargoes of Testaments on a burrico.
— from The Bible in Spain Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman, in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

Richard had been still a mere boy under constant control, and being intelligent, spirited, and docile, had been an especial favourite with his father.
— from The Prince and the Page: A Story of the Last Crusade by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

At this time a peasant was continually passing and repassing between Villa Seca and Madrid, bringing us cargoes of Testaments on a borrico .
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow