" "How long did it take you to get over your disappointment?" asked Anne, amid her laughter.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I am glad of your departure; adieu, good Monsieur Melancholy.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Percy, Northumberland, Th’ Archbishop’s Grace of York, Douglas, and Mortimer Capitulate against us, and are up.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This bemoaning of one's self (as you do now) over the first, careless, shallow gayety of youth departed, and this profound happiness at youth regained,—so much deeper and richer than that we lost,—are essential to the soul's development.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"To gloze over your deeds and machinations, to deny the dark cowardly work that has stabbed my peace for ever!
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Get out your deeds and that sort of thing—we 'll have to file them with the bond as security.
— from The Cross-Cut by Courtney Ryley Cooper

And now," he continued, laughingly, "let us lay aside duty; and give me a glass of your drink, and something to eat, for I have had so much to do to-day with the horses and men that I have not had time to find anything for myself."
— from For Sceptre and Crown: A Romance of the Present Time. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Gregor Samarow

I suspected you were grieving over your disappointment at my inability to send you to the Naval School or possibly over the departure of your chum, Graham, but I might have known my boy was using his time to better advantage than 'crying over spilled milk.'"
— from The Marines Have Landed by Giles Bishop

My own position in Edinburgh society was stated to me quite by accident, as I entered, by a group of young dandies at the ballroom door, who made way for me with a pronounced salute and whispered: "'Tis her father.
— from Nancy Stair: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane