This old woman is sinful, her error is deep, but may she not be converted and saved?"
— from The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century by Anonymous

I shall hear ’em, I dessay.”
— from Real Gold: A Story of Adventure by George Manville Fenn

The case which had defied lay treatment had yielded to the parsonic process of cure; and Zack, the rebellious, was tamed at last into spending his evenings in decorous dullness at home!
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

When I saw his eyes in death, my eyes were dead; when he could hear me call his name no longer, my ears lost their hearing; when his young heart ceased to beat, my own heart was dead.
— from The Log School-House on the Columbia by Hezekiah Butterworth

At last, about a week ago, he brought me here, to this house, told me that I should have everything I desired, left me a lot of money, and went away, saying that he would return soon; so I am always expecting him, and when you rang I thought it was he."
— from Sans-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Paul de Kock

"We must not quarrel about the word," interrupted Astræa, as if she wished to bring the conversation to a close; "we agree, possibly, in the thing, although I should have expressed it differently."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

Indeed, she hardly estimated its difficulties.
— from Brooke's Daughter: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

This business was always effected in disguise; none of his agents or instruments saw him except in disguise, and when his work was over he put it off to return home.
— from Chronicles of Newgate, Vol. 2 From the eighteenth century to its demolition by Arthur Griffiths

“This afternoon when I went for my walk, he was waiting where the paths intersect—” Some hasty ejaculation, I do not know what, came from me, but she lifted her hand.
— from The Guest of Quesnay by Booth Tarkington

Our minister was promptly directed to recognize and put himself in communication with this Government so soon as it should have established its de facto character, which was done.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Benjamin Harrison