“My friend,” said Monte Cristo, with an expression of melancholy equal to his own, “listen to me.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

So he ascended towards the summit of the promontory where the purple peak of Carmel—still called Jebel Mar Elias ("the hill of Lord Elijah")—overlooks the sea, and there he crouched low on the ground in intense prayer, putting his face between his knees.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

She cannot give anyone permission to disregard God's law, but she can, I suppose, make exception to her own law.
— from Mariquita: A Novel by John Ayscough

Lucy, I was pleased to believe, looked upon me with some favor, and I turned more especially to her on leaving.
— from Audubon and His Journals, Volume 1 (of 2) by John James Audubon

"Lucy, I was pleased to believe, looked upon me with some favour, and I turned more especially to her on leaving.
— from John James Audubon by John Burroughs

But in another instance we find the same Prime-minister consenting to the introduction of a bill by one of his colleagues, Mr. Gladstone, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, of which he disapproved so highly that, after it had been passed by a very slender majority of the House of Commons,[ 282 ] he expressed to the Queen a hope that the closeness of the division "might encourage the House of Lords to throw out the bill when it should come to their House, and that he was bound in duty to say that, if they should do so, they would perform a good public service;" and after they had rejected it by a majority of eighty-nine, he pronounced that "they had done a right and useful thing," reporting to her Majesty, as a corroboration of this opinion, and as a proof that it was largely shared by the public out-of-doors, that "the people in the gallery of the House of Lords are said to have joined in the cheers which broke out when the numbers of the division were announced."
— from The Constitutional History of England from 1760 to 1860 by Charles Duke Yonge

Curse the luck!" Just then a man entered the house only less brutal-looking than Dick himself.
— from Frank and Fearless; or, The Fortunes of Jasper Kent by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"In truth, husband," said she, "this has been a strange morning; everything that has occurred looks as clear as day, and yet I cannot understand it all.
— from Homo Sum — Volume 03 by Georg Ebers