Nalátu na ku sa ímung pangatarúngan, I can’t believe your sob stories any longer.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"You are a most disloyal subject of the United States," he laughed: "but you shall stay as long as you wish, my darling."
— from Laurel Vane; or, The Girls' Conspiracy by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Mrs. Maldon said, cajolingly, flatteringly— "My dear, do be your sensible self and listen to me."
— from The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

Therefore, child——' 'I have brought you,' she said, 'another little poem.
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

"We got to make up over that bench yet," she said at last; and we rode out past the ideal stable—its natty weather vane forever pointing the wind to the profit of no man—through another gate of superb cunning, and so once more to an understandable landscape, where sane cattle grazed.
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

Her voice was exquisite, clear as the note of a bird, yet so soft and low that she seemed scarcely to have spoken.
— from The Flaming Forest by James Oliver Curwood