The first time after a year’s absence he returned to Misselthwaite and the small miserable looking thing languidly and indifferently lifted to his face the great gray eyes with black lashes round them, so like and yet so horribly unlike the happy eyes he had adored, he could not bear the sight of them and turned away pale as death.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

In their inmost convictions the master and the servant no longer perceive any deep-seated difference between them, and they neither hope nor fear to meet with any such at any time.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

She informed me at the same time that Angela had slept with them the night following our adventures, and that, thanks to their mutual and usual practices, she had guessed the real state of things, that they had not denied it, adding that it was all her fault, and that Angela, after abusing them most vehemently, had sworn never again to darken their doors; but they did not care a jot.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“And she's got perfectly beautiful rings with diamonds and rubies and emeralds in them; but she says she's got one ring too many, and that she's going to throw it away and get a divorce instead.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

From the beginning of the world, an uninterrupted series of predictions had announced and prepared the long-expected coming of the Messiah, who, in compliance with the gross apprehensions of the Jews, had been more frequently represented under the character of a King and Conqueror, than under that of a Prophet, a Martyr, and the Son of God.
— 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

But if they will have their jeer, They may ask their sweethearts dear, Why they have returned shorn Who went to shear that Sunday morn.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

And here I paid for the reckoning 11s., we dining together, and pretty merry; and then set out again, sleeping most part of the way; and got to Bishopsgate Street before eight o’clock, the waters being now most of them down, and we avoiding the bad way in the forest by a privy way, which brought us to Hodsden; and so to Tibalds, that road, which was mighty pleasant.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She did not say anything; she let her hand stay a moment, and then she got up, put on her veil, left a quiet message for Lady Helen, and departed.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[Pg 92] “Instantly his Royal Highness grasped the situation and I thought that he was going to grasp me at the same time.
— from The Frontier Boys in the Sierras; Or, The Lost Mine by Wyn Roosevelt

Well anyhow, he isn’t going to trouble me, and that’s some comfort.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey

As they moved along the shore of a little cove Jack suddenly called: “Hold on!
— from Tom Fairfield in Camp; or, The Secret of the Old Mill by Allen Chapman

"I don't mind so much about that," said a grave-faced boy, whose name was Vickers; "but what I do hate is the way day-boys spoil everything.
— from Jack of Both Sides: The Story of a School War by Florence Coombe

In one of those moments of confidence, in the years when I had become a counselor to her, I remember her telling me of this boy (known in the family as " little William," to distinguish him from me), and the sufferings she endured through her doubts, lest he should have lived long enough to sin, and had not repented, for, though her dreary creed taught that the rigors of eternal damnation rested on every one who had not repented of each individual sin, and that adult baptism was the only assurance of redemption, it did not teach, nor did she believe, that the innocence of childhood required the certificate of the church.
— from The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I by William James Stillman

Thus saying we arrived at the hotel where our friends were stopping and upon their expressing a desire to find out more about Turkish schools and Turkish educational institutions, I promised 203 to arrange for them to visit some of the exclusively Turkish schools and colleges and to take them to call on people who would be able to tell them about modern Turkish education better than I could and we parted until the following week when I was able to keep my promise to them.
— from Speaking of the Turks by Mufti-zada, K. Ziya, bey

He gets tremendously wrought up; cannot keep two feet on the ground at once; spells fast when the word is his; smiles in response to the visitor’s smile, the only one who dares; leans out and looks down the line with a knuckle in his mouth as the spelling passes down; wrings one hand as his turn approaches again; catches his word in mid-air and tosses it off, and marks with ecstasy the triumph and pride written on the face of his master.
— from Bonaventure: A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana by George Washington Cable

"I do," replied the monarch ; "and I at the same time consider, that though, as a king, I could make a thousand such as you, the Deity alone can make such a painter as Leonardo da Vinci ."
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 1 (of 3) by John Ireland

Surely you might beg Major Aylmer to see what another day will bring.”
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore