He had not embraced her except in dances years before, and in that one quickly broken embrace at Newport.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

He added, 'Whose is this money?' 'It is my own; I have earned it.' 'Does your father know you are paying it?' He does not.
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing

It was an ignorant thing to do, and when the Emperor saw their work he exclaimed in disgust, "You have built here what anyone might have built elsewhere, but you have destroyed what was unique in the world!"
— from Heroic Spain by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

Adam, the first man, closing his eyes in death; you and I, who will do the same ten, twenty, forty years hence, and the generations who will follow us for a million years, perhaps, will waken to eternity, if there be a waking, in one and the same instant of time, without a knowledge of the intervening years.
— from The Mystery of Evelin Delorme: A Hypnotic Story by Albert Bigelow Paine

he cried, starting suddenly up, while a fierce light glowed in his eyes, "I defy you!
— from If Any Man Sin by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody

You know how earnestly I desire your welfare—but because I do so I earnestly advise you immediately to exercise the right you have of appointing another trustee in my place.
— from George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters of Borrow and His Friends by Clement King Shorter

“How!” exclaimed I, “dare you to say the king of Spain is your inspector?
— from The Visions of Quevedo by Francisco de Quevedo

SIR, From the benefit I have experienced in drinking your Sanative Tea for a bilious complaint, bordering on the jaundice, I send you this acknowledgment of its merit.
— from A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith

“My poor little girl,” he ejaculated involuntarily, “do you really care so much about it?”
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth