I took it and was fumbling to put it in the buttonhole of my lapel, when she stepped up and with frank comradeship adjusted it, remarking as she did so: “He’s very much like his sister, but smaller, and not so pretty and graceful.”
— from Lentala of the South Seas: The Romantic Tale of a Lost Colony by W. C. Morrow

You are a gentleman all through, Robert, to the bone, and nowhere so perfect a gentleman as at your own fireside."
— from Shirley by Charlotte Brontë

Shule, Shule, &c. I am no stranger, proud and gay, To win thee from thy home away, And find thee, for a distant day, A theme for wasting signs.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 362, March 21, 1829 by Various

She had brought from the armoire some fine white napkins, and now she produced a glass or two and made her guests provide themselves with the red wine which neither had ever tasted before, and over which Louie made an involuntary face.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"Tell him that I am not——" she paused and glanced out of the window.
— from The Forbidden Way by George Gibbs

You are not so proud as Granny,” he said, as he kissed her forehead.
— from The Precipice by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

I cannot help thinking that some holy person had been her persecutor, and not so patient and gentle a king.
— from Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Horace Walpole