Sometimes the look was like suppressed anger, sometimes like suppressed dread, sometimes like neither—like nothing, in short, which I could understand.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Alle Frachten lichten, sagte der Schiffer, da warf er seine Frau über Bord —All freights lighten, said the skipper, as he threw his wife into the sea.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

“Oh, DON’T look so, dear,” said Mrs. Rachel, putting her kind old arms about the pallid girl.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And he had found things like this: " My little sister, Death ," said good St. Francis; ... "
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Is Rosaline, that thou didst love so dear, So soon forsaken?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“When I leave school, Dad says I can go on the roads with the cattle for one trip,” said Jim.
— from A Little Bush Maid by Mary Grant Bruce

And then, because Roland looked still doubtful, she offered him the benefit of what wisdom the narrow experiences of her life had brought her.
— from Roland Whately: A Novel by Alec (Alexander Raban) Waugh

S'io avessi, lettor, piu` lungo spazio da scrivere, i' pur cantere' in parte lo dolce ber che mai non m'avria sazio; ma perche' piene son tutte le carte ordite a questa cantica seconda, non mi lascia piu` ir lo fren de l'arte.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

Muchas cosas de Pluma, como Aves, Animales, Hombres, y otras cosas mui delicadas, Capas, y Mantas para cubrirse, y vestiduras para los Sacerdotes de sus Templos, Coronas, Mitras, Rodelas, y Mosqueadores.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft