To Borís, Julie was particularly gracious: she regretted his early disillusionment with life, offered him such consolation of friendship as she who had herself suffered so much could render, and showed him her album.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

101 make , send; happie , happye; stealing , sailing; degreese , degrees.
— from The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo by Thomas Nash

“Fancy such a thing happening,” he said, sitting down.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“It’s very kind of you to bring him home,” she said.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

This was done, and at last a gallant and meritorious officer received partial justice at the hands of his government, which he had served so faithfully and so well.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

As the shaft flew, his hand sank slowly with the bow till it lay across his knees, and his body likewise sank back again into Little John's loving arms; but something had sped from that body, even as the winged arrow sped from the bow.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

And when the moment of revelation arrives and the 111 expectant scientist is solemnly told that the "simple elements" which he has sought so long are "terms and propositions," sense-data and universals, is it surprising that he does not seem impressed?
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

At first sight he perceived that it was made of the finest silver, and asked if he had sold such as that to the Jew.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Anonymous

Now Gladys gave him her sunniest smile— On heroes she ever did dote— And the proud little beauty felt it her duty To be kind to this young man of note.
— from The Cornflower, and Other Poems by Jean Blewett

For the first few days he had scarcely seen her.
— from Cinderella Jane by Marjorie Benton Cooke

It was darker now than ever; and as it was early yet for the work he had in hand, he had slackened speed, and finally stopped short, hesitating about going on.
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

The pamphlet attracted but little, it seems, of public attention, but among the young students of Dulwich Grove it was a favourite study; and the impression which it left on the retentive mind of Byron may have had some share, perhaps, in suggesting that curious research through all the various Accounts of Shipwrecks upon record, by which he prepared himself to depict with such power a scene of the same description in Don Juan.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

“Oh, Linden!” said the artist, “I have had so superb a dream,—a dream which, though I have before snatched some such vision by fits and glimpses, I never beheld so realized, so perfect as now; and—but you shall see, you shall judge for yourself; I will sketch out the design for you;” and, with a piece of chalk and a rapid hand, Warner conveyed to Linden the outline of his conception.
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Unfortunately for Val, however, he still suffered, though he was now denied all expression, all relief: the wounded mind bled inwardly.
— from Nightfall by Anthony Pryde

"I might have had some success at it myself."
— from Poor Man's Rock by Bertrand W. Sinclair