Mrs. Perry was always particularly fond of my mother—indeed I do not know who is not—and she had mentioned it to her in confidence; she had no objection to her telling us, of course, but it was not to go beyond: and, from that day to this, I never mentioned it to a soul that I know of.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Can you not wait now and mention it to him?" "I can't wait to-day," said Will, inwardly seared by the possibility that Mr. Casaubon would enter.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The honour and glory of the average man is that he is capable of following that initiative; that he can [Pg 125] respond internally to wise and noble things, and be led to them with his eyes open.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

All the thoughts and feelings that crowded on my mind in those hours I cannot describe, more than in my whole past lifetime.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

They seemed somewhat surprised at seeing me, but upon my informing them how I came to be connected with the matter, willingly excused Mrs Castellan from attendance.
— from A Cabinet Secret by Guy Boothby

So he entered upon his new venture—the great upland farm, with its broad cornfields, its expanse of sheep walk and down, its meadows in the hollow, its copses (the copses alone almost as big as his original holding), with plenty of money in his pocket, and without being beholden to bank or lawyer for a single groat.
— from Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

“Why, sir, the people were afeard to let me into their houses in consequence of the faver.
— from The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three by William Carleton

"Where Mr. Wilson has made his big mistake is that he is conducting this war on the theory of the old whisky brogan, 'Wilson!
— from Worrying Won't Win by Montague Glass

The [Pg 215] consciousness of having six thousand marks in the house in cash had filled him with great joy and given him a feeling of tranquillity and security.
— from Life in a German Crack Regiment by Baudissin, Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil, Graf von

If he cannot, I must infer that he is controlled by his dread of the consequences , by an apprehension of some injury resulting to Religion or Morality from this opinion; and I shall console myself with the hope, that in the sequel of this work he will find proofs of the directly contrary tendency.—Not only is this view of the Understanding, as differing in degree from Instinct and in kind from Reason, innocent in its possible influences on the religious character, but it is an indispensable preliminary to the removal of the most formidable obstacles to an intelligent Belief of the peculiar doctrines of the Gospel, of the characteristic Articles of the Christian Faith, with which the Advocates of the truth in Christ have to contend;—the evil heart of Unbelief alone excepted.
— from Aids to Reflection; and, The Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Can you tell me if this house is called The Pool?"
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

If we put all these together, surely I am not forcing a meaning on a non-significant detail, when I say that here we have shadowed for us the great thought, that the result of the divine forgiveness coming upon a man is that he is clothed with a character which fits him to sit down at his Father's table.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

"The Manitou in the hills is calling," he said abruptly.
— from Salute to Adventurers by John Buchan