Admirable diplomacy; Lord St. Eval, I wish you joy of your new talent," maliciously remarked Lord Henry, as the Earl and his companion passed him.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar

But if you can bestow happiness on another; if you can give one other person only one hour of joy ought you not to live to do it?
— from Mathilda by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

But the Junker, or young nobles, treated with disdain the pretensions of a man who had once been a tanner, and accordingly he turned his attention to the craftsmen and guilds, and was returned as councillor by them in 1473.
— from The Story of Switzerland by Lina Hug

Have you ever had a real jag on you, not the big dinner, big bottle, big cigar sort of imitation, but the wild-eyed, imp-seeing, genuine rip-snorter?" "No.
— from One Wonderful Night: A Romance of New York by Louis Tracy

“Which,” went on Malone, “I do, to wit, in manner following, that is to say, accordin’ to the statutes in such cases made an’ provided, all in due formality with the laws of the United States in general and Arizona in particular, an’ blamed glad I am to get rid of this job, only you needn’t tell the judge I said so,” and, with an air of relief, the official turned over to Jim Nestor papers confirming the right of the boys and their friends to the gold mine.
— from The Motor Boys Over the Rockies; Or, A Mystery of the Air by Clarence Young

I would first take you in the morning, at breakfast with Mr. Harte, and attend to your natural and unguarded conversation with him; from whence, I think, I could pretty well judge of your natural turn of mind.
— from Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

"There was anger there, an' when ye knocked Joe out ye never thought of the public good, but of ye'r own personal injury.
— from The Touch of Abner by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody