“Because, dear sir, my coachman and horses are away on a mission.”
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

"We're disturbing you very late, my dear," said Mrs. Cass, taking Eppie's hand, and looking in her face with an expression of anxious interest and admiration.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

For as the first philosophers must have had some inducement to neglect everything for the search of the best state of life: surely, the inducement must have been the hope of living happily, which impelled them to devote so much care and pains to that study.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

SYN: Variation, difference, diversification, shifting, modification, change, permutation, mutation, mutability.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

"I shall go down," said Mrs. Colwyn, with dignity.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

"I do," said Mr. Coombes, addressing the new guest.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Ponta Delgardo (St. Michaels)—Senhor Bernardo Machado de Faria Maia, Consul-General; A. da Silva Moreira, Consul.
— from The Hawaiian Islands Their Resources, Agricultural, Commercial and Financial by Hawaii. Department of Foreign Affairs

"A dozen strong men couldn't pull out those hairs.
— from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"I dont know what to do," said Mrs. Crawford, perplexedly, turning her rings on her fingers.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

When they had taken a few dozen steps Mac Cann began to roar furiously: "What way are you, Eileen Ni Cooley?
— from The Demi-gods by James Stephens

Some day I shall recall my past, until that time shall prove my worthiness I shall not ask for Virginia's hand, and in this decision she must concur, for the truth might reveal some insurmountable obstacle to our marriage.
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

This fire still burns, and to-day the devout student may catch its flame if, with uncovered head, with shoeless feet, and with humble spirit, he stands before the bush that ever burns and yet is never consumed.
— from The Great Doctrines of the Bible by William Evans