There were but eight; yet, somehow, as they flocked in, they gave the impression of a much larger number.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

It cannot answer to be eccentric; you should think what will be generally liked," said Rosamond, in a decided little tone of admonition.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Brickmakers, eh?" "Yes, sir."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

We've been expecting you so long ...
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“I’ve been expecting you since yesterday.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I don’t wish to know any more, and I believe everything you say.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

It is but eight years since
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I shook myself loose, however, whereupon he seized the skirt of my coat and pulled me back, exclaiming: “You shall not go!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I trust you, my beloved, and believe everything you say.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

I'll warrant that woodbox, would be empty yet, so far as Tom was concerned!”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

But ef you seed dem putty white han's ob hern you'd never tink she kept her own house, let 'lone anybody else's."
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Wholesome rather than beautiful was Patsy Doyle, but if you caught a glimpse of her dancing blue eyes you straightway forgot her lesser charms.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

She was a cunning little thing of four, with wavy locks and penetrating black eyes; yet somehow one would have hesitated far longer to touch her than her twin brother.
— from Working North from Patagonia Being the Narrative of a Journey, Earned on the Way, Through Southern and Eastern South America by Harry Alverson Franck

But don't believe everything you see."
— from Address: Centauri by F. L. (Floyd L.) Wallace

When you get better, as I presage you will, I will leave you to come back to England, and provide for the worst, by ensuring your sister a protector.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

It would not kill her soon; she might live for years, but every year she would grow a little weaker, and a little less capable of toil.
— from A Sweet Girl Graduate by L. T. Meade

Therefore let us seek to pursue, in all varying circumstances, the one purpose which God has in them all, which the Apostle states to be 'even your sanctification,' and let us understand how summer and winter, springtime and harvest, tempest and fair weather, do all together make up the year, and ensure the springing of the seed and the fruitfulness of the stalk.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes by Alexander Maclaren

She was indolent, passive, the caustic even called her dull; but dressed like an idol, hung with pearls, growing younger and blonder and more beautiful each year, she throned in Mr. Beaufort's heavy brown-stone palace, and drew all the world there without lifting her jewelled little finger.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton