It is so much easier to say 'Yes,' since that requires no diplomacy.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Yet," he added, with 70 sudden gravity, "if honour called, the House of Nassau would make even the sacrifice you saw prefigured."
— from Prince and Heretic by Marjorie Bowen

It worries me even to see you so earnest and excited.
— from Girls New and Old by L. T. Meade

"There's nothing you can do for me, except to spare your secretary for an hour longer than she usually takes."
— from Bones in London by Edgar Wallace

and I found one most eminent that said you should love your enemies but none that said you should immortalize them so I said I'd drop her and he said he should say so
— from Diet and Health; With Key to the Calories by Lulu Hunt Peters

Now with Mr. Powell, nothing put him out except sin; and even that did but make him the more eager to save your soul."
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

25 "Ah, my son!" exclaimed the old man, "Happy are my eyes to see you. Sit here on the mat beside me, Sit here by the dying embers, Let us pass the night together.
— from The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

At its foot are the two most beautiful flowers, though not the most effective, the small yellow snapdragon, or toad-flax, and the forget-me-not.
— from The Naturalist on the Thames by C. J. (Charles John) Cornish

At the sight of Frank and the sound of his voice, she had felt all the olden feeling rushing back to her heart; but when, after Nettie had followed Mrs. Van Buren to her chamber, and she stood for a moment alone with him, he felt constrained to say something, and stammered out, "It's deuced mean, Ethie, to serve you so, and mother ought to be indicted.
— from Ethelyn's Mistake by Mary Jane Holmes