These little pranks may seem foolish, but they contain a deeper, more sacred significance, like the devotion that inspires them.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

This heart, thus beguiled, God coveteth and desireth: 'My son,' saith he, 'give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways' (Prov 23:26).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

I am very sorry for poor Charlotte, and do most sincerely sympathize with Sally.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Bathsheba was decidedly disconcerted, "Well, then, why did you come and disturb me?" she said, almost angrily, if not quite, an enlarging red spot rising in each cheek.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Billy Brown thou might have known To eyt each one wor able, The country air did mak’ some swear— They could ommost eyt a table!
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

And such coffee as Dil made; such stews of meat and potatoes and onions, and a carrot or a bit of parsley; and oh, such soups and chowders!
— from In Wild Rose Time by Amanda M. Douglas

"I can almost doubt my senses," said Marlow; but he had no occasion to doubt them.
— from The Man in Black: An Historical Novel of the Days of Queen Anne by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

An’ dey sole my ole man, an’ took him away, an’ dey begin to sell my chil’en an’ take dem away, an’ I begin to cry; an’ de man say, ’Shet up yo’ damn blubberin’,’ an’ hit me on de mouf wid his han’.
— from Sketches New and Old by Mark Twain