Not at all, sir; there is nothing I like so much as grave conversation myself; I could hear it for ever.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

With a look of girlish tenderness she hastened to say: "I want to thank you with the deepest gratitude, major, for your kindness in inviting me here this summer——" "Don't mention it, child," he interrupted frowning.
— from The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South by Dixon, Thomas, Jr.

"The fact is, it's something that struck my fancy the moment I came here; I found myself intensely interested in the place, and I began to make notes, c
— from A Hazard of New Fortunes — Complete by William Dean Howells

What this mighty stream must be near its mouth, I can hardly imagine, for we were here upwards of a hundred miles from the ocean.
— from The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig

[346] Certain works of Anselm, the Monologion , for instance, [Pg 276] present the dry and the formal method of reasoning which was to make its chief home in France; others, like the Proslogion , seem to be Italian in a certain beautiful emotionalism.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

One of the most intelligent and cultivated of women, the wife of a missionary in Turkey, in her last sickness, having heard her husband read to her several times, from the Pilgrim's Progress, respecting the River of Death and the Celestial City, at last said to him, as he was opening the book, "Read to me out of the Bible; that soothes me; I can hear it for a long time; but even Bunyan agitates me."
— from Catharine by Nehemiah Adams

"'But, tell me,' I continued, 'how it fared with you?
— from The International Magazine, Volume 4, No. 5, December 1851 by Various