Mr Allworthy, in his last speech, had recollected some tender ideas concerning Jones, which had brought tears into the good man's eyes.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

“For a few minutes I thought I wasn’t going to like Janet as much as I had expected at first sight.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The most agreeable item he saved for the last.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He is moving; and if he has taken off his mask I shall be able to see.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I have told you, and I repeat it, that to-night we rescue Charles I. You left it to me to discover the means and I have done so.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Vautrin made as if he were going out through the sitting-room, and the student turned to go through the second door that opened into the square lobby at the foot of the staircase.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Ten minutes ago I had no thought of leaving this dear spot.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And papa swore it was owing to me: he called me a pitiful, shuffling, worthless thing; and said you despised me; and if he had been in my place, he would be more the master of the Grange than your father by this time.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

O that the newspapers had called me slave, coward, fool, or what it pleased their sweet voices to name me, and I had attained not death but life!' Carlyle's 'Past And Present .
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 22, No. 3, September 1843 by Various

He asked a thousand questions, wandered among packing-cases as in a maze, and, if his presence were forgotten for a moment, sat down and howled.
— from Nicky-Nan, Reservist by Arthur Quiller-Couch

"Which shows that your father is a sensible man," remarked Uncle Mark; "and I hope to meet him before long.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

The demand of an honest debt, almost two months after it had been due, under a solemn treaty.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

I imagined, by the slight shadow that the boat cast on the bottom beneath, from the brilliant sun that I knew was shining overhead, and from counting up in my mind all I had done since leaving the surface, that the air had lasted me, as nearly as I could judge, two hours; and that seemed to be the extreme limit to which I could go and [232] not renew it.
— from Perseverance Island; Or, The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century by Douglas Frazar

Their eyes met, and in hers the light of gladness leaped and fell like a living flame, then died, to be replaced by a look of entreaty and prayer so moving that his heart in its unselfish chivalry went out to her.
— from The Brass Bowl by Louis Joseph Vance

We promised him that we would use every exertion to overcome any propensity we might have in regard to tearing his house down; and, although he still shook his head mournfully, as if he had no farther confidence in man, he led the way toward his hut, hinting in a sort of undergrowl that it would be greatly to our advantage not to get drunk, or attempt to destroy his house and furniture, inasmuch as he had a number of goatskins, which he wouldn't mind letting sober people have to sleep on, but he'd be squarmed ef he'd lend 'em to people that cuss'd him for not keepin' feather beds.
— from Crusoe's Island: A Ramble in the Footsteps of Alexander Selkirk With Sketches of Adventure in California and Washoe by J. Ross (John Ross) Browne