At that moment the parting was easy to bear: the first sense of loving and being loved excluded sorrow.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

“Oh, well, that’s all right, because a dream does tire a body like everything sometimes.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

It was said that she had poisoned her second husband; she had tried to assassinate her brother-in-law; she had just poisoned a young woman who was her rival, and before leaving England she had, it was believed, caused the favorite of the king to be murdered.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"There isn't any banquet left, Emily," she said.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

This achievement, which could not be concealed from the knowledge of the public, not only furnished the character of Fathom with fresh wreaths of admiration and applause, but likewise effectually secured him from any future attempts of his enemies, to whom the Swiss, for his own sake, had communicated such terrible ideas of his valour, as overawed the whole community. H2 anchor CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR HE PERFORMS ANOTHER EXPLOIT, THAT CONVEYS A TRUE IDEA OF HIS GRATITUDE AND HONOUR.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I had rather see a wren hawke at a fly Then this decision; ev'ry blow that falls Threats a brave life, each stroake laments The place whereon it fals, and sounds more like A Bell then blade: I will stay here; It is enough my hearing shall be punishd With what shall happen—gainst the which there is No deaffing, but to heare—not taint mine eye With dread sights, it may shun.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Mr. Lovel made no answer, but looked extremely sullen; and, soon after, we left the gentlemen to themselves.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

T A B L E. : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : sane : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : nova : : : divus : aug : : : no : lus.
— from Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady

You cannot alter the nature of men and Snobs by any force of satire; as, by laying ever so many stripes on a donkey's back, you can't turn him into a zebra.
— from The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

Had he been aware of the storm raised by the similar attempt by Lord Effingham sixty-four years earlier, he would have known what was in store for him.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

At last, after being long entreated, she was sure that M. and Madame de Nailles would end by giving their consent—they were so fond of Marien.
— from Jacqueline — Volume 1 by Th. Bentzon