'I admire it greatly, sir,' said Wegg. 'Peculiar comfort at this fireside, sir.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“O George,” she said, “it's your medicine!”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Mr. Giovanelli sings splendidly.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

The girl said she was thirsty and wanted to drink water.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

I got my oil-cloth clothes, south-wester, and thick boots all ready, and turned into my hammock early, determined to get some sleep in advance, as the boat was to be alongside before daybreak.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Imagination can figure nothing so grand, so surprising, and so astonishing!
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

As she gazed, she saw somebody, a man, leave the road, step along the paddock beside their palings as if he was coming straight towards her.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Post office girls sold shilling postal orders with a sarcastic smile, with acerbity, with reluctance,--it was naught to them that the revenue was benefited and the pressure on taxpayers eased.
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

Moses now waxed angrier still, and for a second time smote the rock, from which gushed streams so mighty that many of his enemies me their death in the currents, and at the same time water poured out of all the stones and rocks of the desert.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg

"You spoil me with your gifts," she said.
— from Ships That Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden

Trust in the Lord, and do good, so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.