When I come in to light your fire this mornin' I crep' up to your bed an' pulled th' cover back careful to look at you.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“That's what I loved you for, that you are generous at heart!”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I don't intend to gad about with you, but leave you free to go where you like, while I amuse myself in my own way.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, For in possession such, not onely of right, I call ye and declare ye now, returnd Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth Triumphant out of this infernal Pit Abominable, accurst, the house of woe, And Dungeon of our Tyrant: Now possess, As Lords, a spacious World, to our native Heaven Little inferiour, by my adventure hard With peril great atchiev’d.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

"Why," said Diogenes; "do you suppose that I sympathise with you, and am not rather grieved that a slave like you, a man fit, like your father, to grow old and die on a miserable throne, should be living in luxury and enjoyment amongst us?"
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

But I laugh yet further to think how at his home-coming the master-page is to be whipped like green rye, which makes me not to repent what I have bestowed in feasting them.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

As he went out at the door he said: “Siddy, I’ll lick you for that.”
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

This, necessarily a slow process, he found to be not altogether so difficult, and though there was no choice of a landing-place—the objects on shore passing by him in a sad and slow procession—he perceptibly approached the extremity of a spit of land yet further to the right, now well defined against the sunny portion of the horizon.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

I tried to defend her, but he snatched up the reins and thrashed her with them, and all the while, like a colt’s whinny, he went: ‘He—he—he!’” “I’d take the reins and let you feel them,” muttered Varvara, moving away; “murdering our sister, the damned brutes!...
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The tendency which, had he not set himself resolutely against it, would have brought Luther even in later years face to face with a purely naturalistic view of life, has been clearly and accurately pointed out.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"Has it never occurred to you that my position is so much more utterly alone than any human being's ever was before that a new word is really needed to describe it?" "Oh, you must not talk that way—you must not let yourself feel that way—you must not!"
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

After listening to Laguerre you felt that a talk with the other men was a waste of time.
— from Captain Macklin: His Memoirs by Richard Harding Davis

“They always wish you buona sera when they bring the lamp, and felice or felicissima notte when they leave you for the night,” the Signora said.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

‘Fifty to one, child!’ said Aunt Lisbeth: ‘You forget the story.
— from Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

And they say that once when he was conversing with Crates, he interrupted the discourse to go off and buy some fish; and as Crates tried to drag him back, and said, “You are leaving the argument;” “Not at all,” he replied, “I keep the argument, but I am leaving you; for the argument remains, but the fish will be sold to some one else.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Yet so formidable was to be that last trial of the faith of Christians, so crucial that conclusive test of their charity, which was to “deceive, [146] if it were possible, even the very elect,” [15] that the Spirit of Love, yearning for the safety of his regenerate ones, and compassionating the weakness of human nature, revealed its marks and signs in the fullest and most circumstantial detail; so that, warned of the danger, and recognizing it when it arrived, they might pass through it unhurt, whilst those who succumbed to it might be without excuse before the divine justice.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"Damme, I liked you from the first, as was natural enough; but there was no reason why you should take a fancy to an old thief like me more than any other among this pretty lot here.
— from Bred in the Bone; Or, Like Father, Like Son: A Novel by James Payn

There were several thousand deaths in the United States last year from that one cause alone—just from mistaking bottles of poison for other medicine."
— from Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts by Roy Rutherford Bailey