We had heard no step on that grass-grown track; the water running in the vale was the one lulling sound of the hour and scene; we might well then start when a gay voice, sweet as a silver bell, exclaimed— “Good evening, Mr. Rivers.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

For these two, the one by his shrinking from his appointed task, and the other by efforts growing ever more feverish to rid himself of his enemy, seem to be bent on avoiding each other.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Thousands of pages of our modern music would be equally great, equally moving, with a vastly smaller expenditure of effort.
— from Musical Studies by Ernest Newman

I had ter be ez good ez my word."
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

But every general event must have a general cause, for which individuals are not alone responsible; and the fantastic tricks of the people who try to make religions for themselves cannot be due merely to the idiosyncrasies of exceptionally foolish persons.
— from Memoirs of Life and Literature by W. H. (William Hurrell) Mallock

Nevertheless, the course of events tended inevitably to the approaching union of the two crowns under a common sovereign—invasion from England had wholly ceased—and though the aged Elizabeth would not acknowledge the title of James to her glorious throne, every politician in both countries was aware that the time was not distant, when the policy inaugurated by Edward I., and pursued by every great English monarch, of joining together the whole of the island, would be consummated without civil war or bloodshed.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

"Good evenin', Deacon," said Biah, entering, "Good evenin', Mrs. Pitkin.
— from Betty's Bright Idea; Deacon Pitkin's Farm; and the First Christmas of New England by Harriet Beecher Stowe

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— from The Battle of San Jacinto and the San Jacinto Campaign by Louis Wiltz Kemp