I could have expected no better indeed; this is like the return you make to all the rest of my fondness.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Otherwise, what he puts on paper will be practically sure of immediate rejection because the manuscript proves that the writer has either not been in the theatre, or being there, has been wholly unobservant.
— from Dramatic Technique by George Pierce Baker

It gives the whole scene the air of being a contrivance of man, in which Nature has either not been invited to take any part, or has declined to do so.
— from Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 1. by Nathaniel Hawthorne

That lady, as much attached to Isaura as was Mrs. Morley herself, and still more desirous of seeing a girl, brilliant and parentless, transferred from the companionship of Signora Venosta to the protection of a husband, entertained no belief in the serious attentions of Graham Vane.
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He was burned to the color of coffee, his shoes were burst, and his garments, which had evidently never been intended to fit him, were mostly rags, but his face reminded her of the man she had met on board the “Aurania.”
— from The Dust of Conflict by Harold Bindloss

Just before the close of the fair, strangely enough, there was a split in our ranks owing to the “matron” having engaged new blood, in the shape of three fellows—Harry McMillan, Tom Harding, and Paddy Crotty—who were to play the leading parts.
— from Adventures and Recollections by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

That Van Degen seemed also to wonder was becoming unpleasantly apparent: his cheque had evidently not brought in the return he expected, and he put his grievance to her frankly one day when he motored down to lunch at Tuxedo.
— from The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton

She remained a long time in meditation in the thicket of roses, but her meditations had evidently no bitterness in them, and a miraculous serenity seemed to have spread itself over her heart like a beneficent balm.
— from A Woodland Queen ('Reine des Bois') — Volume 3 by André Theuriet

The landlord had evidently not believed in the existence of ice in summer, and his first thought was to take some home to his wife, to prove that we had reached the glacière and had found ice: such at least were the reasons he gave, but evidently his soul was imbued with a deep obedience to that better half, and the offering of a block of ice was suggested by a complication of feelings.
— from Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland by G. F. (George Forrest) Browne