He looked so attentively at me that I looked attentively at him and felt sure I understood him.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Natigwaláan ku siya dihang nagsipláag ang mga táwu, I lost sight of him when people ran away in every direction.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Quality, however, is so very disputable a matter, that I look upon all information of this kind as somewhat uncertain.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

He seemed very much enraged at my freedom, talked a great deal about his quality and honour, and began to make some comparisons which I thought so injurious to mine, that I demanded an explanation with great warmth, and he was mean enough to equivocate, and condescend in such a manner that I left him with a hearty contempt of his behaviour.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

prohibits, under heavy penalties, all master tailors in London, and five miles round it, from giving, and their workmen from accepting, more than two shillings and sevenpence halfpenny a-day, except in the case of a general mourning.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

It does not exist in Edinburgh any more than in London, for it relates the two and is neutral as between them.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

Nor in any other of his writings is the attempt made to interweave life and speculation, or to connect politics with philosophy.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

It won't take but just a minute, then I'll let you see.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

At most times it lies far in the back of my mind, a mere distant cloud, a memory, and a faint distrust; but there are times when the little cloud spreads until it obscures the whole sky.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But now I am asked to give a much fuller account of myself, not only of what I have seen, but also of what I have been, what were the objects or ideals of my life, how far I have succeeded in carrying them out, and, as I said, how often I have failed to accomplish what I had sketched out as my task in life.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller

As for you, I do not hate you any more than I love you.
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The specimen in the British Museum is apparently an adult male, ten inches long, and is, with regard to the distribution of the scales and the form of the head very similar to C. Stoddartii .
— from Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Tennent, James Emerson, Sir

There was small need for Rupert to assure me that I loved him.
— from Barbara Winslow, Rebel by Beth Ellis

This was the way in which Rosamond and Lydgate slid gracefully into ease, and made their intercourse lively again.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Then she asked me if I didn’t love—what was it she asked me that I loved? I forget.
— from Samurai Trails: A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese High Road by Lucian Swift Kirtland

As Pretoria was approached the country became very pretty: low hills and many trees, including lovely weeping-willows, appeared on the landscape, and away towards the horizon was situated many a snug little farm; running streams caught the rays of the sun, and really rich herbage supplied the pasture for herds of fat cattle.
— from South African Memories Social, Warlike & Sporting from Diaries Written at the Time by Wilson, Sarah Isabella Augusta, Lady

If I see anythin' myself that I like I'll buy it.
— from The Light of the Western Stars by Zane Grey