But let me ask you, how are we acting?
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And then the Talking Cricket said to me, ‘You deserve it; you were bad;’ and I said to him, ‘Careful, Cricket;’ and he said to me, ‘You are a Marionette and you have a wooden head;’
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

She has twicet as much as you have, an' what's more, she needn't be payin for what she can do for herself, an' a lady mustn't do; well, well, it's a quare world; but any ways, the masther's better, glory be to God."
— from Kate Vernon: A Tale. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Mrs. Alexander

Would you not rather suffer this grief, bitter though it be, than watch the predestined victim grow and ripen, and wind itself more and more around your heart, and when it is of full and mature age, and you yourself are stricken by years, and can form no new ties to replace the old that are severed, when woes have already bowed the darling of your hope, whom woe never was to touch, when sins have already darkened the bright, seraph, unclouded heart which sin never was to dim,—behold it sink day by day altered, diseased, decayed, into the tomb which its childhood had in vain escaped?
— from Devereux — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"Well—well, Mary," Mr. de Burgh soothingly replied; not totally unaffected by this unwonted demonstration of excited spirit in his calm and gentle cousin; "I will not ask you not to love Trevor; that I suppose—indeed, I too plainly see would be crying out to shut the door after the horse was stolen, but I may—I must advise you," he added with an expression of great kindness, "as a cousin, feeling himself under present circumstances almost standing in the place of a brother, to be in no haste to involve yourself irremediably in so important and irreparable a step as marriage, without further knowledge, a clearer insight into the nature of the man who will have the rule and influence over your whole future destiny.
— from Mary Seaham: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Mrs. (Elizabeth Caroline) Grey

If her grandmother were so fond of him, then he must be a disagreeable young man, and yet his appearance was not disagreeable.
— from The Duchess of Wrexe, Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary by Hugh Walpole

Or you may omit the tomatoes, and at the end of the half-hour add a generous gill of milk, and you have a white fricassee.
— from Miss Parloa's Young Housekeeper Designed Especially to Aid Beginners; Economical Receipts for Those Who Are Cooking for Two or Three by Maria Parloa

Never had he felt Grace's mysterious attraction so strong upon him; and for the first and last time, perhaps, for many a year, he answered with downcast eyes of shame.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

He's not, afther all, to be married, as you hoped and wished he would, to Kathleen Cavanagh.
— from The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two by William Carleton

Might he not have neglected to call his master, and yet have asked whether he was awake?
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

AN OLD FRIEND Hey, Old Midsummer! are you here again, With all your harvest-store of olden joys,— Vast overhanging meadow-lands of rain, And drowsy dawns, and noons when golden grain Nods in the sun, and lazy truant boys Drift ever listlessly adown the day, Too full of joy to rest, and dreams to play.
— from The Complete Works of James Whitcomb Riley — Volume 1 by James Whitcomb Riley