Madame Chantal, a fat lady, whose ideas always gave me the impression of being carved out square like building stones, was accustomed to exclaiming at the end of every political discussion: “All that is seed which does not promise much for the future!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I held out for civility’s sake until the third day; and then I said, plump out, that I couldn’t stand any more of it, and went off to Chancery Lane.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

She said that my little Sophie talked of me all day, and that I should find my son much improved on my return.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

She abhorred lying and duplicity, was just, equitable, humane, disinterested, true to her word, her friends, and those duties which she conceived to be such; incapable of hatred or revenge, and not even conceiving there was a merit in pardoning; in fine (to return to those qualities which were less excusable), though she did not properly value, she never made a vile commerce of her favors; she lavished, but never sold them, though continually reduced to expedients for a subsistence: and I dare assert, that if Socrates could esteem Aspasia, he would have respected Madam de Warens.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Fourth in descent, and third in succession of his royal family, even the zealots of hereditary right, in him, saw something to flatter their favorite prejudices; and to justify a transfer of their attachments, without a change in their principles.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

If his wife could only come for a month, for a day; and then if she liked she might go back again.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear!
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

I turned slowly on account of my dignity, and there I saw, coming round a point, the poor old Pride of Banya towed by a couple of canoes.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"She wailed, poor dear, and then I saw the page from Fedosey Nikolaitch's running up with a note and a bird-cage, and in the cage there was a starling.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As an illustration of this, all have seen instances in which there had been apparently no cases in a family for ten or fifteen years, when from some cause one case develops, and this is soon followed by other cases in the same family.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, April 1899 Volume LIV, No. 6, April 1899 by Various

And her cheek kindled and glowed; yet there was a sorrowful look in her eyes also, and I noted it the more because upon such a day as this I should have thought nobody could have had aught but thoughts of joy and triumph.
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green

"You were rather disconcerted at that, I suspect," laughed Mrs. Emerson.
— from Ethel Morton's Holidays by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

"You deserve all that I shall give you," he answered, drawing his sword.
— 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

As she walked she wrote on the trees: ‘If ever the Prince, my lover, comes this way, let him know that it is here I dwell, and that I sit daily on the edge of this fountain, mingling my tears with its waters.’
— from The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

You have done nothing for me, or nothing of any account, and yet my very heart yearns towards you, it does; and therefore it seems likely that these feelings come from something besides saving scalps and guiding through woods.”
— from The Pathfinder; Or, The Inland Sea by James Fenimore Cooper

The climate is delightful, and there is something extremely cheerful in the aspect of the city, in which it differs greatly from Toluca.
— from Life in Mexico by Madame (Frances Erskine Inglis) Calderón de la Barca

The answer was, "Arise, and go into Damascus; and there it shall be told thee of all things which are appointed for thee to do[3]."
— from Parochial and Plain Sermons, Vol. VIII (of 8) by John Henry Newman

I dreamed that I was again on deck, and that I saw our pursuer, like some monster of the deep, her canvas towering high above our own towards the sky, close to us.
— from The Two Supercargoes; Or, Adventures in Savage Africa by William Henry Giles Kingston