And think of the save in the ironing, Mrs. Doctor, dear.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Thou shalt be all in all, and I in thee For ever; and in me all whom thou lovest: But whom thou hatest, I hate, and can put on Thy terrours, as I put thy mildness on, Image of thee in all things; and shall soon, Armed with thy might, rid Heaven of these rebelled; To their prepared ill mansion driven down, To chains of darkness, and the undying worm; That from thy just obedience could revolt, Whom to obey is happiness entire.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

cuenta f account, accounting; tener en—— bear in mind; darse—— de ( not in A. ) realize; tomar por su—— take upon one's self (an affair that would normally be another's).
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

You will, in turn, enter it, my dear d’Épinay, for you will soon be numbered as one of the family.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“What is my daughter doing?” asked Madame Danglars.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

M—— M—— took up a book full of the most lascivious engravings, and said, with a significant glance in my direction: “Do you wish me to have a fire lighted in the alcove?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

To repeat the principle we have had occasion to appeal to so often, such training may develop a machine-like skill in routine lines (it is far from being sure to do so, since it may develop distaste, aversion, and carelessness), but it will be at the expense of those qualities of alert observation and coherent and ingenious planning which make an occupation intellectually rewarding.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Your faith kept me alive in my darkest days—even when I thought I had wronged you."
— from No Defense, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

In vain I prodded my memory and called upon all the powers of earth and air to assist me in my dreadful dilemma.
— from Doctor Izard by Anna Katharine Green

she said with a little tremor, “is it you or is it my dream?” “Don’t be afraid,” he answered cheerfully, “it is I—in the flesh.”
— from Jess by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

I am pleased to think now that he must be disappointed with the very small sum which I advanced, in my deep disgust at discovering, that at the very time when I was sighing and languishing for his support, he was at my very doors, but through his own selfish malignity avoided his twin-sister.
— from Perlycross: A Tale of the Western Hills by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

If my daughter does not love you, it is to me, most probably, that you must look for the why and wherefore : it is because I love you so much that she is against you.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

Dydd da i chwi weithian, mae’n rhaid i mi deithio Dros fryniau, a broydd, a gwaunydd, dan gwyno; Gan stormydd tra awchus, a chan y glaw uchel, Caf lawer cernod, a chwithau’n y gornel.”
— from Folk-Lore of West and Mid-Wales by Jonathan Ceredig Davies

Peace is my dear delight—not Fleury’s more: But touch me, and no minister so sore.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

“Oh! far from it, my dear Daréna; I thank you.
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

One of our faithful members—a member of the class of ’84—on the first day of October sent this pleasant greeting to the Superintendent of Instruction: “My Dear Doctor—This is opening day.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, December 1883 by Chautauqua Institution