The light in which M. de Bassompierre evidently regarded "Miss Snowe," used to occasion me much inward edification.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

señor lord, gentleman, Mr., sir, master; before other titles, nouns of kinship, etc., untr., but expressing respect; —— mio sir.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

To complete my timidity, I perceived I had not the good fortune to please Madam de Breil; she not only never ordered, but even rejected, my services; and having twice found me in her antechamber, asked me, dryly, “If I had nothing to do?”
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

" "On business, eh?" replied Mr. Smith, stepping in at the low window.
— from Diddie, Dumps, and Tot; Or, Plantation Child-Life by Louise Clarke Pyrnelle

This will be an effectual remedy, not only for the moth, but for the weevils and other insect pests; and if a pound of sulphur be occasionally burnt in the barn, even rats must succumb to the gas which is generated.
— from Science and Practice in Farm Cultivation by James Buckman

Ma Beatrice si` bella e ridente mi si mostro`, che tra quelle vedute si vuol lasciar che non seguir la mente.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Then the chairs were drawn together, and the five tongues rattled like magpies to the half bewildered Mr. de la Croix, until he called for his candle and went to his apartment, followed by Kate, singing, rend=';' He called for his fife, he called for his wife, And he called for his fiddlers three—e-e. end poetry block end rend “Minnie!” said Lisa, holding up a dress with a wide rent in it, “is it ‘the weakness of my eyes that shapes this monstrous apparition,’ or is it a reality?”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5, November 1850 by Various

end poetry block end rend MY SPIRIT.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, August 1849 by Various

His good-natured handsome face was as passionless as before, only perhaps a shade or two deeper in color, and his great blue eyes rather more staring.
— from Hammer and Anvil: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen