She must have told him {pg 169} from md sight=> from my sight {pg}184 Goldaming => Godalming {pg 226} I I did not want to hinder him=>
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

With this expression of his feelings, Mr. Solomon Pell laid three small written cards before Mr. Weller’s friends, and, looking at the clock again, feared it was time to be walking.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Yonder they lie; the poor old man, their father, making such pitiful dole over them that all the beholders take his part with weeping.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The subject, and some lines of the original version, having been suggested by the poet’s friend, Mrs. Shew, Poe, when he wrote out the first draft of the poem
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

“New for me; sensible people have acknowledged it for years.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

If necessary, I am prepared to fight for my small post in the Bank as if I were fighting for my life.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

Estates bore permanent responsibilities which went with the land to furnish military service, produce, supplies, &c., to the state.
— from The Relations between the Laws of Babylonia and the Laws of the Hebrew Peoples The Schweich Lectures by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

Here as he rode slowly on, revolving various plans for more successfully pursuing the Norman, and reproaching himself for not having made more accurate inquiries at Troyes, his eye was suddenly attracted by the appearance of something floating on the river like the long black hair of a young woman.
— from Richelieu: A Tale of France, v. 3/3 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

I—I—am very wicked, Sally, will you forgive me?” said poor little Hester, bursting suddenly into tears, throwing her arms round her friend’s neck and kissing her.
— from The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Lady 'tis true that I have wrong'd you thus, And my contritio[n] is as true as that, Yet have I found a means to make all good again, I doe beseech your beautie, not for my self, [Pg 102]
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 by John Fletcher

"You memorized that on purpose; you dug a pit for me," she protested.
— from Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead

And we see, even in modern times, that the same Church which is blamed for making sages heretics is also blamed for making savages priests.
— from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

"Here's a letter from Morten," said Pelle, handing it to him.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04 by Martin Andersen Nexø

Gossip, and the mischief-making that may too often accrue from imprudent loquacity, have at all times been so commonly attributed to the fair sex that we naturally find many such proverbs as these: "Silence is not the greatest vice of a woman"; "A woman conceals what she does not know"; "He that tells his wife news is but newly married."
— from Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme