They dare not betray the "laughable blunder," which, said Charles Lamb, is the test your neighbour giveth you "that he will not betray or over-reach you."
— from Personality in Literature by R. A. (Rolfe Arnold) Scott-James

Indeed, I know that I changed less in the ten years that came after this than in the four that had gone by since that day.
— from King Olaf's Kinsman A Story of the Last Saxon Struggle against the Danes in the Days of Ironside and Cnut by Charles W. (Charles Watts) Whistler

For the blood rushed up into the girl's face and she exclaimed in a trembling voice: "Colonel Luttrell, I trust that you are not going to ask me any questions."
— from The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

If you had kept the dog in leash we should have had them both, but as it is, Colonel Lasalle, I think that you may congratulate me.'
— from Uncle Bernac: A Memory of the Empire by Arthur Conan Doyle

The peculiarity of these uplands, within certain limits, is that the young spring-verdure clothes them before it appears in the lower and warmer levels.
— from To The Gold Coast for Gold: A Personal Narrative. Vol. I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

One of the underlying ideas in conservative lumbering is that the "yield," i.e. , the amount of wood taken out of a healthy forest in a given time, shall be equal to the amount grown during the same period.
— from Wood and Forest by William Noyes

But perhaps country life is tedious to you?"
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

“The real trouble with you,” commented Larry, “is that, though you can paint, as a business man, as a promoter of your own stock, the suckling infant in that picture is a J. Pierpont Morgan of multiplied capacity compared to—” “Stop making that noise like a damned fool!”
— from Children of the Whirlwind by Leroy Scott

Oh, Wegeler, my only comfort lies in this, that you have known me almost from my childhood, and yet, O let me say for myself, I was always good, and always strove to be upright and true in my actions—otherwise how could you have loved me?
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer