Mr. Peters said, Sir, you are very good, and very kind; I love to see this complaisance to your sister, though she be in fault, so long as you can shew it with so much justice to the sweetest innocence and merit in the world.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Kadtung kasábà inalisngaw lang tu sa ákung kasukù, The scolding was just a faint shadow of what I really felt.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The great misery the City and kingdom is like to suffer for want of coals in a little time is very visible, and, is feared, will breed a mutiny; for we are not in any prospect to command the sea for our colliers to come, but rather, it is feared, the Dutch may go and burn all our colliers at Newcastle; though others do say that they lie safe enough there.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He wondered, though, when the old man raised his shrivelled face, and bent his gray eye upon him, with a keen inquiring look, that such remarkable features could have escaped his attention for a moment.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Now that the struggle between the interlopers and the heirs, hitherto existing only in his wife’s mind, had become an actual fact, Monsieur Hochon’s keen intelligence, lulled to sleep by the monotony of provincial life, was fully roused.
— from The Two Brothers by Honoré de Balzac

Because I think of you as Katherine, I love to speak your name to yourself; it seems to bring me a little nearer to you.)
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

Again and again scientists and humanitarians must return to the attack, for individual carelessness becomes community menace, and “line upon line and precept upon precept” they must present their knowledge in language that shall attract and hold the attention and fancy.
— from Euthenics, the science of controllable environment A plea for better living conditions as a first step toward higher human efficiency by Ellen H. (Ellen Henrietta) Richards

"You know I like to sit with you, Miss Waring."
— from Sybil Chase; or, The Valley Ranche: A Tale of California Life by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

I know it like that," she cried, holding out the pretty pink palm of her hand.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The only difference between his teaching here and in the Dissertation consists in the admission that all knowledge is limited to sense-experience, and that we are therefore unable to determine whether this intelligible world which we must think , and think in the precise manner defined by Leibniz , does or does not exist.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith

"Oh! dearest," she whispered drowsily, as but half awakened, she felt herself being drawn into a pair of strong arms—"Oh!—you know I love that scent of cloves—Oh!—I love you, John!"
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

Gwynette always kept it locked that she need not be surprised by the appearance of Madam Vandeheuton, monitor of the dormitory, or by one of the infrequent visits of Miss Granger herself.
— from Sisters by Grace May North

He wondered though, when the old man raised his shrivelled face, and bent his grey eye upon him, with a keen inquiring look, that such remarkable features could have escaped his attention for a moment.
— from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2) by Charles Dickens

Then I keep it like this," she said.
— from The Invader: A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods