As yet none had come who awakened any emotion of love in Sabina; and she told herself that real love might alter her values and send her to a poor man's home after all.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts
Something in her eyes blinded her as she thought of Mowitza and the glad days when they knew each other first; and of Mowitza's master, and his voice as she had heard it last—and the words!
— from Told in the Hills: A Novel by Marah Ellis Ryan
She was telling me how much she had missed me, and how very anxious she had been all that time to know whether I was safe or not, and cried.
— from Two Years in the Forbidden City by Princess Der Ling
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