Jewkes has been with me from him, and she says, I must get out of the house this moment.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Also, call me not Queen—I am weary of flattery and titles—call me Ayesha, the name hath a sweet sound in mine ears, it is an echo from the past.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The compassion of his love for her, as she saw it, made her lift up her heart to him in devotion.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

It had always sounded strangely in my ears, like the word gnomon in the Euclid and the word simony in the Catechism.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

This is a star of the first magnitude in the southern constellation of Argo; we have a similar statement in Manilius, i. 216, 217.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Apart from a nephew's natural interest in an aunt's refined weekly paper, I had always had a soft spot in my heart for Milady's Boudoir ever since I contributed that article to it on What the Well-Dressed Man is Wearing.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

I am he attesting sympathy, (Shall I make my list of things in the house and skip the house that supports them?)
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

I don't know about you, Lise, but I consider that I have a sordid soul in many ways, and his soul is not sordid; on the contrary, full of fine feeling....
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Some years after this, when I, myself, was superintendent of the division I always had a soft spot in my heart for the men then suspended for a time.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

“I will be very glad to see Eunice again,” answered Crispin, reddening slightly; “but the fact is, I have a small scheme in my head to get Eunice and her mother, in company with Mr. Carriston, to come out to Athens in my new yacht.”
— from The Island of Fantasy: A Romance by Fergus Hume

Thyreopterus , Orthogonius , Catascopus , and Pericallus are very characteristic forms, as well as Planetes and {320} Distrigus , the latter having a single species in Madagascar.
— from The Geographical Distribution of Animals, Volume 1 With a study of the relations of living and extinct faunas as elucidating the past changes of the Earth's surface by Alfred Russel Wallace

His lecture over, Professor Ainslie Grey paid a visit to his laboratory, where he adjusted several scientific instruments, made a note as to the progress of three separate infusions of bacteria, cut half a dozen sections with a microtome, and finally resolved the difficulties of seven different gentlemen, who were pursuing researches in as many separate lines of inquiry.
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

Because of Eleanor I have a soft spot in my heart for Jews.
— from Four Years in the Underbrush: Adventures as a Working Woman in New York by Anonymous

Such shall be the lot also of mechanics and day-laborers of whom we are now obliged to hear and suffer such intolerable maliciousness, as though they were noblemen in another's possessions, and every one were obliged to give them what they demand.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

That process was much more deliberately carried out then than it is in the present day of hurry and rush, steam and electricity; therefore it was not until nearly a fortnight had elapsed that the last bale had been hoisted out of the Bonaventure’s hold and safely stored in Mr Marshall’s warehouse.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood