Perhaps some hint of her meaning did dawn on him.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

The sufferer from anguished pride felt himself restored to health all at once, his moral despair disappeared in the air; for morality itself was blown away, annihilated—that is to say, fulfilled , there on the Cross!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Why, the cellar here, Mrs. Doctor, dear, has been a heart-break to me, as well you know.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Departing thence to undertake the offices of magistracy in Rome, he married Domitia Decidiana, a lady of illustrious descent, from which connection he derived credit and support in his pursuit of greater things.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

And when he declares, "I am glad for your sakes I was not there" (at the grave of Lazarus), he most distinctly disavows being omnipresent, and thus denies to himself another essential attribute of an infinite God. 29.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

"—"Well," says he, "my dear, do as you will, when you are up; you know I never contradict you."—"No," says she; "if the devil was to contradict me, I would make the house too hot to hold him."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

Hī autem equī hominēs miserrimōs dēvorābant dē quibus rēx supplicium sūmere cupiēbat.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

'All holy men dream dreams, and by following holy men their disciples attain that power.' 'A Red Bull on a green field, was it?' the lama repeated.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

O my husband, my dear, dear husband!"
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

Look here, Mr Denning, don’t you be down-hearted.
— from Sail Ho! A Boy at Sea by George Manville Fenn

To-day his shoulders seemed more stooping than ever, and the ends of his mustache dropped downward.
— from The Spy: The Story of a Superfluous Man by Maksim Gorky

Mr. Tulliver, when under the influence of a strong feeling, had a promptitude in action that may seem inconsistent with that painful sense of the complicated, puzzling nature of human affairs under which his more dispassionate deliberations were conducted; but it is really not improbable that there was a direct relation between these apparently contradictory phenomena, since I have observed that for getting a strong impression that a skein is tangled there is nothing like snatching hastily at a single thread.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Left to himself, however, M. Daburon did not experience that intense satisfaction, mixed with vanity, which he ordinarily felt after he had successfully conducted an examination, and had succeeded in getting his prisoner into the same position as Albert.
— from The Lerouge Case by Emile Gaboriau

W'en dey duh talk dis word so, Spider come, he meet dem duh talk.
— from Cunnie Rabbit, Mr. Spider and the Other Beef: West African Folk Tales by Henry W. Ward

This hairy meteor did denounce The fall of sceptres and of crowns; With grisly type did represent Declining age of government, And tell, with hieroglyphic spade, Its own grave and the state’s were made.
— from Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers by W. A. (William Alexander) Clouston

"Oh, Max, my husband, my dear, dear husband," she sobbed,
— from Elsie's Winter Trip by Martha Finley

Happening to observe a curious immense boulder in the pass, in the form of a rock almost [Pg 263] flat on the top, about twenty feet square and nearly as many high, it occurred to Rivers that he might discern distinct striated lines of glaciation if he could get up there on the rock to see.
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler