He tells me she is a woman of a very bad fame and very impudent, and has told my Lord so, yet for all that my Lord do spend all his evenings with her, though he be at court in the day time, and that the world do take notice of it, and that Pickering is only there as a blind, that the world may think that my Lord spends his time with him when he do worse, and that hence it is that my Lord has no more mind to go into the country than he has.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

AN ENIGMA TO F——. TO FRANCES S. OSGOOD TO HELEN TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW) TO MARIE LOUISE (SHEW) THE RAVEN.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

While thus dismissing her, the maiden lady stept forward, kissed Phoebe, and pressed her to her heart, which beat against the girl's bosom with a strong, high, and tumultuous swell.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Did you keep it such?” “He told me lies,” she cried fiercely, with a cry that seemed to pierce through the storm over our heads, up towards the everlasting justice.
— from Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood by George MacDonald

He knew that she saw a great deal of Benham; he believed that their friendship had developed into a deeper emotion on Benham's side at least; and it seemed to him unlike Corinna, who was, as he told himself, the most loyal soul on earth, to turn such an association into a cynical jest.
— from One Man in His Time by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

As for her gift to him of Jacky, she would just tell him she wanted him to marry Lily, so he could have his child....
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

“All right now,” he said to himself; “this must lead somewhere, and I have still an hour of daylight to find my way out of the forest.
— from The Woodcutter of Gutech by William Henry Giles Kingston

You have tracked me like sleuthhounds.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

If I had had two Marshals like Suchet I should not only have conquered Spain, but have kept it."
— from Napoleon's Marshals by R. P. Dunn-Pattison

"You see," said Ben, "she had written up when the box went, you know, to have the mother let some of the children come, so as to have a good time.
— from Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney

138 “I really could not help that, Mr. Loring,” she said, laughingly.
— from The Bondwoman by Marah Ellis Ryan

“And I'll join you,” said Mr. Maxwell, stretching out his hand to Miss Laura, She did not smile, but looking very earnestly at him, she held it clasped in her own.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders