With your looks and such a lovely voice it is a crime for you to hide yourself in the country.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The two words are frequently used promiscuously, and may both be rendered by the Latin vates in its earliest meaning of seer : Válmíki was both poet and seer, as he is said to have sung the exploits of Ráma by the aid of divining insight rather than of knowledge naturally acquired.” Schlegel .
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

NOTE 5.—Here the G. Text adds: " Et je meisme le vi ," intimating, I conceive, his having himself seen specimens of the asbestos—not to his having been at the place.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The first of these accounts has not fallen into my hands; the second, which Mosheim prefers, I have read in a Latin version inserted in the Maxima Bibliotheca Patrum, (tom. xvi.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Such a thing as me, Sir!” said Mr. Lovel, letting fall his knife and fork, and looking very important; “I really have not the honour to understand your expression.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Estas bone ke li venis , it is well that he came.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

" She paused—and added in a low voice, "If I could but know HIS heart, everything would become easy.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

They look very ill, I understand.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

In schoolbooks, a long vowel is indicated by a horizontal line over it: as, āra , altar ; mēnsis , month ; ōrdō , series .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

But whatever blood runs in his little veins it is good, healthy blood.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The girls turned away into the lane, Valetta indulging in an outrageous grumble.
— from The Two Sides of the Shield by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Exertion, like virtue, is its own reward; and our hero had, moreover, other stimulating motives for persevering in a display of affected composure and indifference to Flora's obvious unkindness.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

continued La Valliere, “it is only too true, my cause is a bad one, and I cannot tell in what way to begin.
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

The fact seemed implicitly woven into her long letter, though another, less vitally interested in the writer, might have failed to observe it.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts

In the Lancelot version it is difficult to understand how Gawain, who had no guide, finds his friend so quickly.
— from The Legend of Sir Lancelot du Lac Studies upon its Origin, Development, and Position in the Arthurian Romantic Cycle by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

It bears on its bosom the largest vessels; it is the sea which bears them, and yet it is the river, because the river, being lost in the sea, has become one with it.
— from Spiritual Torrents by Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon

She gave him a puzzled, indignant flash of her eyes and replied in the same low voice: “It is more than fourteen years.”
— from The Whip Hand: A Tale of the Pine Country by Samuel Merwin

Shorter and shorter grew the breath, deeper and deeper the film, till, just as the first gray light showed itself in the eastern horizon, came the last sigh, and Mrs. Simmons, leaning forward, exclaimed in a low voice, 'It is over.'
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various