He was ready to do them whatever good he might; but, after all, he never exactly made common cause with them, nor gave any reliable evidence that he loved them better in proportion as he knew them more.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Under these galleries, and behind the banqueting tables, were a multitude of gentlemen, dressed as if to attend a court, but whose garb, although rich enough to have adorned a royal drawing room, could not distinguish them in such a high scene as this.
— from Redgauntlet: A Tale Of The Eighteenth Century by Walter Scott

Why, Mr. Feigenbaum, she had to pay twenty-two fifty for the precisely same garment, and I could have got her the same thing here for ten dollars, only Mr. Rothman wouldn't positively sell any goods at retail even to his work-people.
— from The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass

Sometimes she read bits of the letters to Margaret at breakfast, and after breakfast she would go up to the General and read everything to him except the precious words which Derry had meant for her very own self.
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

"I only wanted Phil to have a good time; I never thought he was such a baby he'd get any harm," exclaimed Chad, a little sulkily, getting awfully red, even to his ears.
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

Yet the presence of those other familiar men promoted expression, for they embodied the indifference which gave a resistant energy to his speech.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

As long as you live is it not glory and reward enough to have conquered the beasts at Ephesus?
— from The state of the dead and the destiny of the wicked by Uriah Smith

And it doesn't do to give a rat even the half of a half-instant.
— from The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

The contingency which might bring about such an accession had not, however, yet arisen, and might never arise; in the meantime, Lord Roberts gave a ready ear to Hickman's application, which, after some weeks of delay, he answered in the following letter, which was at once communicated to Carson and those in his immediate confidence: "ENGLEMERE, ASCOT, BERKS.
— from Ulster's Stand For Union by Ronald McNeill