With a sharp gesture he motioned them to silence, but he pointed with one gloved finger to a cafe table under a bank of flowering foliage at which sat the Marquis de St. Eustache, his teeth shining in his thick, black beard, and his bold, brown face shadowed by a light yellow straw hat and outlined against the violet sea.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
And still pursuing the same cheerful thoughts, she soon afterwards added, “And I will tell you what, Fanny, which is more than I did for Maria: the next time Pug has a litter you shall have a puppy.” H2 anchor CHAPTER XXXIV Edmund had great things to hear on his return.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
"I am loving you," said he, and his eyes burning, "loving the grace and the beauty and the bravery in you," and he lifted her into his arm like a wean, and his face was bent to hers and her white arms round him.
— from The McBrides A Romance of Arran by John Sillars
The struggle must have been fierce, for he drew from his pocket a large, yellow silk handkerchief and mopped the beads of perspiration from his face.
— from Captain Calamity Second Edition by Rolf Bennett
Good Mistriss Merri-thought be [g]one, I pray you for my sake, I pray you forbear a little, you shall have audience presently, I have a little business.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher
At last?’ ‘Yes,’ says he, ‘at last.
— from The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens
Gray . ’Tis well—thus I shall be revenged—Lucy, if you are resolved to hate, at least you shall have ample reason for it.
— from Ambrose Gwinett; or, a sea-side story: a melo-drama, in three acts by Douglas William Jerrold
‘Stay a little yet,’ said he, ‘and thou shalt go for a while.’ That passed, he stayed on; but Olwen, for that was the name of the damsel that had kissed him, was very unwilling that he should depart.
— from Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales by Elias Owen
However, I shall be here then, and if I have any luck you shall have another skin of the same size by that time."
— from An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope
Fouchette could not have known that he would be at liberty, yet she had arranged things exactly as if
— from Mlle. Fouchette: A Novel of French Life by Charles Theodore Murray
and look ye, she hath already found him."
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
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