‘And Joram and Minnie are like Valentines.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

“I think,” said Joe, after meditating a long time, and looking rather evasively at the window-seat, “as I did hear tell that how he were something or another in a general way in that direction.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

She preaches nothing but feasting and jollity; a melancholic anxious look shows that she does not inhabit there.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“Ah, Ben, you've got a joke again' me as 'll last you your life.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

This would spoil so completely the surprise to which Wendy and John and Michael are looking forward.
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

“It is just; just and manly and like a true-born Englishman as he is, who loves the people and whose fathers before him loved the people (great cheering).
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It was a sultry day towards the end of July, and Miss Adair looked for once hot and dusty.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

From the hills to the east they brought jade and marble and lapis lazuli, and gold, silver and copper.
— from Red Nails by Robert E. (Robert Ervin) Howard

She is just as much a live little girl as I am.
— from Dick and Dolly by Carolyn Wells

Jason and Medee , at l. 13433; Philis and Demophon , at l. 13415; ' Dido , roine de Cartage,' at l. 13379.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

It is true that the position of those slaves who tilled the fields was a very unpleasant one, but the average freeman who had come down in the world and who had been obliged to hire himself out as a farm hand led just as miserable a life.
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

So I think I did a good job and made a lot of friends, who used to write to me from there.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

Just a minute, and let us get him out of the way before we settle matters between ourselves."
— from Seven Legends by Gottfried Keller

This name kimono is Japanese and means a loose garment.
— from Clothing and Health: An Elementary Textbook of Home Making by Anna M. (Anna Maria) Cooley

The music struck up at this juncture and Marie and Lieutenant Holzen glided smoothly across the floor.
— from The Boy Allies in the Baltic; Or, Through Fields of Ice to Aid the Czar by Clair W. (Clair Wallace) Hayes