They are good-natured people, and think little of their own claims; but still they must feel that any body's hurrying away is no great compliment; and Miss Woodhouse's doing it would be more thought of than any other person's in the room.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The boys came running up and seized her, and in no gentle way either.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

As history is poorly retain'd by what the technists call history, and is not given out from their pages, except the learner has in himself the sense of the well-wrapt, never yet written, perhaps impossible to be written, history—so Religion, although casually arrested, and, after a fashion, preserv'd in the churches and creeds, does not depend at all upon them, but is a part of the identified soul, which, when greatest, knows not bibles in the old way, but in new ways—the identified soul, which can really confront Religion when it extricates itself entirely from the churches, and not before.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“Groslow is the man who broke Parry’s head and is now getting ready to break ours.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

martinez ill tel clarita its all a humbug an ill not give you a sent more if you challenje him
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

"It does not please me," said the fiddler, "to hear you always wishing for another husband; am I not good enough for you?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

“Get in,” said Kutúzov, and noticing that Bolkónski still delayed, he added: “I need good officers myself, need them myself!”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I took a dislike to him the first time I saw him, and I never got over it.”
— from The Luminous Face by Carolyn Wells

With the whole heart ' — and I never gave one bit of my heart to it — and how is he to be sought?
— from Hills of the Shatemuc by Susan Warner

"His accent is not German, you will agree, mon capitaine !"
— from The Old Blood by Frederick Palmer

Woman is the more immediate environment, the special providence, so to say, of childhood; and man, in a rightly constituted society, is the special providence, the more immediate environment of woman, standing between her and inanimate Nature, guarding her, taking thought for her, feeding her, using his special masculine qualities for her—that is to say, in the long run, for the future of the race; this indeed being the purpose for which Nature has contrived all individuals of both sexes.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

The fortunes of the heroine, an Indian Naucht girl, are told with a vigor, pathos, and a wealth of poetic sympathy that makes the book admirable from first to last.
— from Friendship and Folly: A Novel by Maria Louise Pool

The fortunes of the heroine, an Indian Nautch girl, are told with a vigor, pathos, and a wealth of poetic sympathy that makes the book admirable from first to last.
— from The Baron's Sons: A Romance of the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 by Mór Jókai

The fish would hardly touch my hooks, and I never got a full fare.
— from The Wreckers of Sable Island by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

But if it were not so; where health , life , and happiness are involved, no good man can hesitate.
— from A Disquisition on the Evils of Using Tobacco and the Necessity of Immediate and Entire Reformation by Orin Fowler

I was in the United States for a long time, and although over there just the same as here, all is not gold
— from German Fiction by Gottfried Keller