It is one he values much, and I've often admired it, set up in the place of honor, with his German Bible, Plato, Homer, and Milton; so you may imagine how I felt when he brought it down, without its cover, and showed me my name in it, 'from my friend Friedrich Bhaer.'
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

He had intended to hurry out to Ogden Place and surprise Carrie, but now he fell into an interesting conversation and soon modified his original intention.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

He is not what I call a strong man.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

“Yes, now it is clean and sweet, master,” said the King’s son.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

I cleared and steadied my voice to reply: “All is changed about me, sir; I must change too—there is no doubt of that; and to avoid fluctuations of feeling, and continual combats with recollections and associations, there is only one way—Adèle must have a new governess, sir.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

There is one more thing you can do for me, and that is, come and see me now and then—for you see I am very lonely here, and I promise your entrance shall not be disputed again.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Tired day-labourers have again finished their Week; huge Paris is circling and simmering, manifold, according to its vague wont: this one fair Figure has decision in it; drives straight,—towards a purpose.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In other words, imagine that I first walk through Divinity Avenue, and then imagine that the powers governing the universe annihilate ten minutes of time with all that it contained, and set me back at the door of this hall just as I was before the choice was made.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

It has been observed that “this affinity between the Ganjam fishermen and the Bengali Bābu, resulting in the apotheosis of the latter, is certainly a striking manifestation of the catholicity of hero-worship, [ 261 ] and it would be interesting to have the origin of this particular form of it, to know how long, and for what reasons the conception of protection has appealed to the followers of the piscatory industry.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Books Recommended : Babelon, Manual of Oriental Antiquities ; Botta, Monument de Ninive ; Budge, Babylonian Life and History ; Duncker, History of Antiquity ; Layard, Nineveh and its Remains ; Layard, Discoveries Among Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon ; Lenormant, Manual of the Ancient History of the East ; Loftus, Travels in Chaldæa and Susiana ; Maspero, Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria ; Perrot and Chipiez, History of Art in Chaldæa and Assyria ; Place, Ninive et l'Assyrie ; Sayce, Assyria: Its Palaces, Priests, and People .
— from A Text-Book of the History of Painting by John Charles Van Dyke

I called a special meeting of councils on that same day, and asked permission to increase the police force, which permission was granted me.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

So thoroughly dispirited were the enemy, that the sight of the red-coated Sepoys of Knox, whom they could not distinguish from English, induced them to abandon Rajahmahendri in all haste, although it contained a strong mud fort, with several guns.
— from With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Lord Randolph Churchill, the founder of Tory democracy, his present-day successor in the same role, Lord Birkenhead, and the ever young Lord Halsbury are men of the type which Walter de Merton wished to train, "for the service of God in Church and State," men who champion the existing order, but who are willing to develop and improve it on the old lines.
— from The Charm of Oxford by J. (Joseph) Wells

Sure we are that the difference in conditions and surroundings must explain some of the differences of opinions and practices among butter makers.
— from Hints on Dairying by T. D. (Thomas Day) Curtis

You are, of course, a singularly intelligent child, and so must often have wondered what has become of all the interesting things that you read about in the old fairy-tales—the shoes of swiftness, and the sword of sharpness, and the cloak that made its wearer invisible, and things like that.
— from Oswald Bastable and Others by E. (Edith) Nesbit

As I asked myself the question it came again, startling me with its sudden brilliancy; and this time it was certainly from some aperture overhead, and a little beyond where we sat.
— from Esther : a book for girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

May I come and see madame and the boy to-morrow?"
— from Carnac's Folly, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker