‘I have a letter to present, and inquiries to make, you know.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The plainest and most comfortable clothes, those which leave him most liberty, are what he always likes best.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Orsino smiled contemptuously; Montoni smiled too, but he also listened.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“I have formed an acquaintance, thanks to my good fortune, with many noted persons, and have, at least for the moment, a crowd of friends.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

[The dancers have all left the scene.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Why could not I, going up to bed with my basket of keys, stop to sit down by her fire and accommodate myself for a little while to her, at least as well as to anybody else, and not trouble myself about the harmless things she said to me?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

“I hope at least, that you may be mistaken.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Therefore I repeat, let no man talk to me of these and the like expedients, 'till he hath at least some glympse of hope, that there will ever be some hearty and sincere attempt to put them into practice.
— from A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick by Jonathan Swift

I feel like a foolish dace in these regions, and have as little toleration for myself here, as for them.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

"We have a little more."
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I had a letter from him this morning.
— from Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell

At length, as he was growing rather impatient, he heard a light step on the stairs near him, and, looking up, he saw his little benefactress descending, carrying a huge doll in her arms.
— from Her Benny: A Story of Street Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

Owen has a tremendous head, and looked, as he was, the greatest celebrity of the meeting.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 (of 3) by George Eliot

At last it grew so weak for want of food that it could only moan and move its head a little from side to side.
— from Old Greek Stories by James Baldwin

I have a letter from you the 29th of March.
— from Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams by Abigail Adams

Possibly I am a little unstrung, and it’s all, it’s mainly fancy: but I think, I can’t help thinking it has a little distorted—changed my face;
— from The Return by Walter De la Mare

This particular Pawnee was Red Wolf, who had been driven almost out of his senses when Deerfoot launched the shafts at him and Lone Bear, as they sat by the deserted fire.
— from Footprints in the Forest by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He wondered, poor little tear-weary boy, would Essie mind very much if he had a little, only a little, game very quietly on the floor now; the oilcloth had beautiful yellow squares, all ready for the different detachments.
— from The Family at Misrule by Ethel Sybil Turner