No, Dounia was not that sort when I knew her and... she is still the same, of course!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But she did not recognize him until he took her in his arms, kissed her, and said, "I suffered much for thee and now thou, too, hast had to suffer for me."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

If you could but know her as she is, so sweet and lovely and—” “There is no medicine for a fool!” snarled his mother, enraged at the boy’s apparent infatuation.
— from The Honorable Miss Moonlight by Winnifred Eaton

She pinched Dyckman's cheek and kissed him and said: “It's sweet of you, Jimmie, to call on an old crone like me, and so promptly.
— from We Can't Have Everything: A Novel by Rupert Hughes

II If ever thou hast kindly heard A Song in soft Distress preferr'd, Propitious to my tuneful Vow, O gentle Goddess!
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

“Keep her as she is,” said Mr Adrian; “and, Mr Gallagher, pipe all hands.
— from Kilgorman: A Story of Ireland in 1798 by Talbot Baines Reed

Do you know," he added, smiling, "I shall begin to fear that you are selfish."
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

But if there were cases in which he could have at once this twofold experience in which he would have the consciousness of his freedom and the feeling of his existence together, in which he would simultaneously feel as matter and know himself as spirit, in such cases, and in such only, would he have a complete intuition of his humanity, and the object that would procure him this intuition would be a symbol of his accomplished destiny and consequently serve to express the infinite to him—since this destination can only be fulfilled in the fulness of time.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

"I know you will, dear," I assented, kissing her, "and so I shall venture to leave you, while I go out to institute another little inquiry."
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, February 1899, No. 98. by Various

The fear of sleeplessness is almost worse than the reality; but one falls asleep at last without knowing how, and so it shall some day be with our final sleep.
— from Waldfried: A Novel by Berthold Auerbach

Do you know,” he added, smiling, “I shall begin to fear that you are selfish.”
— from What Will He Do with It? — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron