His ears repeated, " She would have laid down her life for 'ee.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Could I believe my Friend had ever read Shakespear , I should certainly conclude he had taken the Hint from Theseus in the Midsummer Night's Dream 2 .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Her emotion relaxed, she modified her embrace a little, and she said: “Charlotte dear, what do you mean?
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The dreadful shock of separation took place in the night; and he immediately dispatched a letter to his friend, the Reverend Dr. Taylor, which, as Taylor told me, expressed grief in the strongest manner he had ever read; so that it is much to be regretted it has not been preserved.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Each of the official personages present offered in succession some indistinct observations; expressive it would seem of a degree of regret, and hinting exculpatory reasons, so far as he individually was concerned.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

return Footnote 31: The statue of Memnon near Thebes in Egypt when first struck by the rays of the rising sun is said to have become vocal, to have emitted responsive sounds.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Her brow had heavily contracted; her whole face was pallid, her lips apart, her eyes rigidly staring at their visitor.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I ventured to say to him, in allusion to the political principles in which he was educated, and of which he ever retained some odour, that 'his mother had not carried him far enough; she should have taken him to ROME.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

La passion fait souvent un fou du plus habile homme, et rend souvent habiles les plus sots —Love often makes a fool of the cleverest man, and often gives cleverness to the most foolish.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

You are the only author whom Goethe has ever read seriously, it seems to me, and I rejoice."
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

And from time to time, being one of the most devoted and assiduous of all the mothers of the wild, she would gather it caressingly to her side with that great flipper, or, whirling half around, touch it inquiringly with her enormous rounded snout.
— from Neighbors Unknown by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

All cannot be well in a world where such contradictions exist, and what if some of the worst abuses of the age have found lodgment in the very ramparts that faith has built against them?" Don Gervaso's face grew stern and his eyes rested sadly on Odo.
— from The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton

What boastful father in the fulness of his heart ever related such wonders of his infant prodigy, as Kit never wearied of telling Barbara in the evening time, concerning little Jacob?
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

"Faith!" said he, letting his eyes rest searchingly upon the face of his companion, "and how camest thou by this thing, my good lord?"
— from The Fifth of November A Romance of the Stuarts by Charles S. Bentley

Perhaps her eyes roved so far away because the immediate surrounding of the hotel was not attractive; though the streets devoted to private residences of this little city—to which the railroad was fast making its way—were pleasing to the eye, and rather Southern in their features.
— from Overland Tales by Josephine Clifford

If this were a good reason, why may he not be pictured as a lion, horn, eagle, rock, since he is under such metaphors shadowed to us?
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock