This had been a conceded point with her old mistress, Marie’s mother; and “Miss Marie,” as Dinah always called her young mistress, even after her marriage, found it easier to submit than contend; and so Dinah had ruled supreme.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

When you come home, you must establish a special singing-club of all the matrons and maidens in the neighborhood, and we'll sing in your garden, and in the beautiful music-room, and in the pretty boats on the river, and on the flat-roofs, and everywhere.
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

"Perhaps I can help you; my eyes are good."
— from Captivating Mary Carstairs by Henry Sydnor Harrison

But despite his failings, his ignorance, the bewildering changes in his surroundings, never a word concerning his young master escaped his lips, never an inadvertent allusion, a disastrous whisper.
— from The Storm Centre: A Novel by Mary Noailles Murfree

“It is your own fault, my nephew,” cried he; “you might easily have avoided living at an inn in a city where you have so many relations.
— from The Life and Adventures of Guzman D'Alfarache, or the Spanish Rogue, vol. 3/3 by Mateo Alemán

When you come here you must exert all your abilities in finance, to make me no longer dependant upon the bounty of friends; or rather, I should say, your bounty, for you are the only person I have borrowed money of.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

Do you think I could hold you more easily anyhow?”
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth

"If you do not come here, you may expect to see me at Judge Ostrander's.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

Sicilian Hybla cannot have yielded more excellent honey than Bova and Ammendolea.
— from Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa

“It's near by, and ye can have your meals early or late as ye plaze, and the work ain't hard.
— from Felix O'Day by Francis Hopkinson Smith