But I was particularly gratified when the love which had arisen between him and young Limbach in Frankfort enabled the enterprising tenor to carry away this singer, to whom I had behaved so miserably.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Next day there is a fair in the neighboring town, so the youth says to his father, "I will now change myself into a beautiful horse, and you can sell me; but when you have sold me, you must take off my bridle, or I cannot become a man again."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

Make yourself amends by so glorious a choice; make your virtue a spectacle worthy men and angels: be humble among your children, assiduous in your choir, exact in your discipline, diligent in your reading; make even your recreations useful.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Another person mixed up in that business and no other, a person in a wretched state, comes here to-night and is seen a-speaking to your maid-servant; and between her and your maid-servant there passes a paper that I would give a hundred pound for, down.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“Ah, my friend, one may live in a big house and yet have no comfort.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

“Ah, Bradstreet, how are you?”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Suddenly a crisp voice spoke from the road, and looking up I saw a little Ford two-seater, and a round-faced young man in a bowler hat. 'Are you Alexander Turnbull?'
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

"If you'll be a real good girl, Kit, and never call me a berry hooker again, you can have first pick of these Shepherd Sweetings."
— from Kit of Greenacre Farm by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

Even now, Stepper, after being here a year, he actually doesn't realize the importance of Jimsy's getting signed up to play.
— from Play the Game! by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

Ant there’s as many walrus coos and bulls here as ye see in ta Firth o’
— from Steve Young by George Manville Fenn

He's lived so long that he is affecting death rates and insurance tables, all by himself, and you know what that does to my reputation.”
— from Carter, and Other People by Don Marquis

He expired soon after blessing her, as you may imagine.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

To be dependent upon the assistance of friends, who may leave one in the lurch at the eleventh hour, is a miserable business that can only be avoided by having a yacht which one is capable of handling alone.
— from Mons, Anzac and Kut by Aubrey Herbert

On more than one occasion he had galloped with Lucky Boy and beaten him, and yet there was no mistaking the way in which Barry's horse won the trial.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould

“Ah, but how are you to know a good lion from a bad one?” said Edward.
— from The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame