Can you bear it, love?"
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Walter hasn't come yet, but I'll look after him; don't worry, And you better HURRY, dearie, if you're going to take any time fixing the flowers on the table.”
— from Alice Adams by Booth Tarkington

I chose you because I loved you!
— from Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

The merchant who continually yells “ bargain ” is like the old hen who was always crying “fox.”
— from The Clock that Had no Hands And Nineteen Other Essays About Advertising by Herbert Kaufman

Nor can your business interests long endure these constant jars from the repressionists.
— from The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

Perhaps I can't manage the cooking yet, but I'll learn to in time." Excited by the novelty and change, and buoyed up by the prospect of her new hat, and new frocks and aprons too, she felt she could do anything, and could not do enough in return for all that was to be done for her, and, when Mona made up her mind to work, there were few who could outdo her.
— from The Making of Mona by Mabel Quiller-Couch

I think you, Teddy, had better chuck your berth in London, live here, and help me to write that book on my Eskimo experiences."
— from Till the Clock Stops by J. J. (John Joy) Bell