When he addresses himself to her in discourse, she seems to listen with reluctance, and industriously avoids all particular communication; but in proportion to her coyness, our aunt is coming.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

‘What have I done?’ sobbed she, instantly checked.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"Had I done so," she said, "we might have been interrupted at any hour by the chief of the eunuchs, who has the right to enter whenever it pleases him, whereas this is forbidden ground.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

There were equally excellent opportunities for vacationists in the home island, delightful sylvan spots for rejuvenation, offering a plethora of attractions as well as a bracing tonic for the system in and around Dublin and its picturesque environs even, Poulaphouca to which there was a steamtram, but also farther away from the madding crowd in Wicklow, rightly termed the garden of Ireland, an ideal neighbourhood for elderly wheelmen so long as it didn’t come down, and in the wilds of Donegal where if report spoke true the coup d’œil was exceedingly grand though the lastnamed locality was not easily getatable so that the influx of visitors was not as yet all that it might be considering the signal benefits to be derived from it while Howth with its historic associations and otherwise, Silken Thomas, Grace O’Malley, George IV, rhododendrons several hundred feet above sealevel was a favourite haunt with all sorts and conditions of men especially in the spring when young men’s fancy, though it had its own toll of deaths by falling off the cliffs by design or accidentally, usually, by the way, on their left leg, it being only about three quarters of an hour’s run from the pillar.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

" "I didn't wish to hear it, dearest," she said proudly.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

“Well, well,” said Holmes gleefully, “you have indeed done some solid work while I have been sitting spinning theories with my friend!
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

“No doubt Mr. Wilcox may have induced death,” she said; “but if it wasn’t one thing it would have been another as you know.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“He is dead,” she said, almost as abruptly as the Rector, when she had taken her usual place.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"Sire, he is dead," said she.
— from The Heart of Princess Osra by Anthony Hope

"He is drowned," she said, and just sat and sobbed.
— from The Treasure of the Isle of Mist by W. W. (William Woodthorpe) Tarn

336 In the God of battles trust: Die we may, or die we must, But O where can dust to dust Be consigned so well, As where Heaven its dews shall shed, On the martyred patriot's bed, And the rocks shall raise their head Of his deeds to tell?
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

‘Ah! Wildvill , he is dead,’ said she, ‘and died not mine, a Blackmoor Lady had bewitched him from me; I received a Letter lately which informed me all; there was no name subscribed to it, but it intimated, that it was written at the request of dying Frankwit .’
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume V by Aphra Behn