About dinnertime, I ordered my Circassian horse, covered with that very rug, purposely to be led past her windows.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Why, sir, replied I, I cannot help being grieved for the poor mother of this sweet babe, to think, if she be living, that she must call her chiefest delight her shame: If she be no more, that she must have had such remorse on her poor mind, when she came to leave the world, and her little babe:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

"If it be really the case that all my cousins have come over," Pao-yü ventured with a smirk, "how is it that I don't see them?"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

There were not many subjects of dispute which at that moment could have come home to his own breast more powerfully, for having the unknown uppermost in his thoughts, it naturally occurred to him that he would have done just the same if any audacious gossiper durst have presumed in his hearing to speak lightly of her.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Either the diplomatist must give his lessons gratis, and I will tolerate him, or he must never set his foot again in my house;—do you understand, madame?” “Oh, this is too much,” cried Hermine, choking, “you are worse than despicable.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

At bottom, there is no positive rite which does not constitute a veritable sacrilege, for a man cannot hold commerce with the sacred beings without crossing the barrier which should ordinarily keep them separate.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

This is the spot—so men have told— Where Lord Mahendra 215 dwelt of old, This is the blessed region where His votaress mother claimed his care.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

“We must cut him,” continued Mr. Crab, “decidedly and forever.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Men cannot, however, claim any natural superiority from the grandeur of longevity; for in this respect nature has not distinguished the male.
— from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects by Mary Wollstonecraft

I wish there were more ways than one for me to back it, and I would," Mary cried, her cheeks red bonfires of excitement.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

“No,” replied Vanslyperken, “you have done wrong, and if you go on shore again, you may just give this answer, that Mr Vanslyperken don’t care a damn for the old woman; that she may carry her carcase to some other market, for Mr Vanslyperken would not touch her with a pair of tongs.
— from Snarleyyow; or, The Dog Fiend by Frederick Marryat

"I doubt if we shall catch her." "We MUST catch her!" cried Holmes, between his teeth.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Of course, it was partly due to the pipe; how any man could have called himself a plumber, and put in such a pipe as that!
— from Between the Larch-woods and the Weir by Flora Klickmann

He may call himself Confederate, if he will.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol 6, No 5, November 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Margaret Coffin Halvosa (C); 29Dec66; R399219. Tides.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1966 July - December by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

"No other man west of the mountains could have calmed that crowd after that young daredevil Temple had stirred them up," declared Mr. Wright.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill