As a rule girls have better memory than boys (it might also be said that their intelligence is generally greater, so long as no continuous intellectual work, and especially the creation of one’s own ideas, is required).
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

" "Oh no—not at all," replied Gabriel, hastily, and a sigh escaped him, which the deprivation of lamb skins could hardly have caused.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

As Danglars approached the disappointed lover, he cast on him a look of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted; occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

At any rate, grandmother had a shrewish tongue and often berated him.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

“Call him RAYMOND FITZOSBORNE,” suggested Diana, who had a store of such names laid away in her memory, relics of the old “Story Club,” which she and Anne and Jane Andrews and Ruby Gillis had had in their schooldays.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And so we went for the snakes, and grabbed a couple of dozen garters and house-snakes, and put them in a bag, and put it in our room, and by that time it was supper-time, and a rattling good honest day’s work: and hungry?—oh, no, I reckon not!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

2 [A12; a12] receive, get hold of what is there.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I cut off's head, And am right glad he is not standing here To tell this tale of mine.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

'She's an interesting woman, Tom,' he remarked lightly yet with enthusiasm once, 'and a rare good hostess—a woman in a thousand, I declare.
— from The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood

Claude, who possessed no mean skill as a raconteur , gave him the history of the Casino incident, and the thrilling dénouement so interested the baronet that he lit another cigar.
— from A Mysterious Disappearance by Louis Tracy

“You from Arizona?” asked Rathburn, grasping his right foot in his left hand.
— from The Coyote A Western Story by James Roberts

I—" "It is taking no chance at all," retorted Gottlieb, his little eyes glistening like a snake's.
— from The Confessions of Artemas Quibble Being the Ingenuous and Unvarnished History of Artemas Quibble, Esquire, One-Time Practitioner in the New York Criminal Courts, Together with an Account of the Divers Wiles, Tricks, Sophistries, Technicalities, and Sundry Artifices of Himself and Others of the Fraternity, Commonly Yclept "Shysters" or "Shyster Lawyers" by Arthur Cheney Train

The favors were knots of mistletoe and holly, and a roasted goose held the place of honor upon the table.
— from Polly and the Princess by Emma C. Dowd

He started off at a rapid gait, his white burnous tossing on his shoulders, and with fast-beating hearts Guy and Melton came close behind.
— from The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa by William Murray Graydon

Another said that he wasn't going to bother himself with looking after a real gold heart, when a silver-gilt one would serve his purpose just as well.
— from The Farringdons by Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler