The Mother, as a mother should, Soon calmed the Child.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

A little MORE strength, swing, courage, and artistic power, and they would be OFF—and not back! 11.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

" "Exactly, and I came to say to you——" "Nothing can be more simple," said Captain Nemo.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

‘Well, you know, that’s what they told me,’ said she, composedly staring me in the face.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

In the morning she scarcely could get out of bed, all the pain having settled in her back, but in spite of protests from the family she resumed her journey.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

"I think I will not go back to your visitors, Prue, my tongue is apt to slip out of my control and I might say something compromising," she said.
— from The Imprudence of Prue by Sophie Fisher

If thou hast seen my shade sans character, If thou hast seen that mirror
— from Canzoni & Ripostes Whereto are appended the Complete Poetical Works of T.E. Hulme by T. E. (Thomas Ernest) Hulme

Never did a mountain seem so close; its big sides seemed at one's very elbow, and its majestic dome, and the lofty cluster of slender minarets that were its neighbors, seemed to be almost over one's head.
— from A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 by Mark Twain

In a small back room on the second floor of the inn at Angers, a mean, dingy room which looked into a narrow lane, and commanded no prospect more informing than a blind wall, two men sat, fretting; or, rather, one man sat, his chin resting on his hand, while his companion, less patient or more sanguine, strode ceaselessly to and fro.
— from Historical Romances: Under the Red Robe, Count Hannibal, A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman