Topsy made a short courtesy, and looked down; and, as she turned away, Eva saw a tear roll down her dark cheek.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Nothing that is not a real Crime makes a Man appear so contemptible and little in the Eyes of the World as Inconstancy, especially when it regards Religion or Party.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“Now comes my turn,” said the Astrodi; “but I don’t want you to infringe on the rights of my auditor, so come and look round and see where the path lies.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

That is to say, he made a straight cut across lots, preferring fences and ditches to a crooked road; and when the Speaker got to the Capitol he said he had been in the air so much he felt as if he had made the trip on a comet.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Lady Lucas could not be insensible of triumph on being able to retort on Mrs. Bennet the comfort of having a daughter well married; and she called at Longbourn rather oftener than usual to say how happy she was, though Mrs. Bennet's sour looks and ill-natured remarks might have been enough to drive happiness away.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Nor were there wanting other indications of the good gentleman's having gone down in the world of late: for a great scarcity of furniture, and total absence of comfort, together with the disappearance of all such small moveables as spare clothes and linen, bespoke a state of extreme poverty; while the meagre and attenuated condition of Mr. Sikes himself would have fully confirmed these symptoms, if they had stood in any need of corroboration.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

I advertises round in the papers and finds my mammy and she come and lived with me.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Why he had not come she knew no more than she knew what she was going to say to him in explanation of her message, and she cared as little for the one as for the other.
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton

Oh! nephew Jalâl-ud-din Mahomed Akbar," she cried at last.
— from A Prince of Dreamers by Flora Annie Webster Steel

[Blank Page] [2] The South Prospect of the Cathedral Church of St. Mary & St. Chad at Lichfield
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton

Now that you've done me the honor to give me a second chance at lovin' you, there's somethin' I want to ask.
— from The Last Straw by Harold Titus

You were rash then, little child, for the skies with storms are wild, And you faced the dim horizon with its whirl of mists, and smiled, Climbed a little higher, lonelier, in the solitary sun, To feel how the winds came on.
— from Poems by Alice Meynell

"Now comes my turn," said the Astrodi; "but I don't want you to infringe on the rights of my auditor, so come and look round and see where the path lies.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 16: Depart Switzerland by Giacomo Casanova