Every one spoke of her with that degree of pity which it is pleasant to experience; every one was ready to do her the little kindnesses which are not costly, yet manifest good-will; and when at last she died, a long train of her once bitter persecutors followed her with decent sadness and tears that were not painful to her place by Ilbrahim's green and sunken grave.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

When they were once more at home, Frederick said, "And now, Catherine, you, too, must be industrious and work."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

“In a month, then, on your honor, if I am not consoled, you will let me take my life into my own hands, and whatever may happen you will not call me ungrateful?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And now can you not dare face Menelaus and learn what manner of man he is whose wife you have stolen?
— from The Iliad by Homer

You now see, Tom, to what dangers imprudence alone may subject virtue (for virtue, I am now convinced, you love in a great degree).
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Scores of little factories along this strange stream, waiting for this crust, transmute it as it passes, as if by magic, here into a bone cell, there into gastric juice, here into bile, there into a nerve cell, yonder into a brain cell.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“You are not convinced yet?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

You are now collecting your people delightfully, getting them exactly into such a spot as is the delight of my life.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Of course if you are normally constituted, you would do nothing of the sort.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

I am sure you could not do me any good, for you are not converted yourself."
— from From Death into Life or, Twenty Years of my Ministry by W. (William) Haslam

"I am beginning a new career; you understand, of course.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

It was no worldly wife she found for him, but the swift March wind, and never can you prevail against her.’
— from The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

"You are seeing her under altogether new conditions, you know," said Mrs. Campbell sweetly, as she stepped off with light tread and non-committal face towards a merrily-laughing group, further on.
— from All Aboard: A Story for Girls by Fannie E. (Fannie Ellsworth) Newberry

"Aye, he is that!" said Saunders, "he's a nice chiel' yon.
— from The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Several of the more valuable articles were allowed to remain in the hiding-places in which they had been concealed, as none could yet say how events might finally turn out.
— from Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty