Less given to detail are the beggars who make sporting ventures.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Then, as Atkinson rose somewhat doubtfully and gathered his hat and stick and went towards the garden gate, Father Brown said in a more serious voice: “Where is that Indian?”
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

For vanity is so very common, and merit so very uncommon, that even if a man appears to be praising himself, though very indirectly, people will be ready to lay a hundred to one that he is talking out of pure vanity, and that he has not sense enough to see what a fool he is making of himself.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Again you drive me to despair, Maximilian,” said Valentine, “again you plunge the dagger into the wound!
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“Oh, mercy!” said Vera with vexation.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On the other hand, as Mr. Muir supposes, Varenya , applied to evil spirits of darkness in the Zendavesta, is cognate with Varuna (Heaven); and the Vedic Indra, king of the gods—the Sun—is named in the Zoroastrian religion as one of the chief councillors of that Prince of Darkness.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

“I beg a thousand pardons, Rose, and will offend no more—though she does make some very queer mistakes!”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXX, No. 1, January 1847 by Various

How do you do, Mrs. Scobel?" "Violet," said the Vicar's wife gravely, "why do you never come to our week-day services now?" "I—I—don't know.
— from Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He seemed to be still walking between Sikes and Crackit, who were angrily disputing—for the very words they said, sounded in his ears; and when he caught his own attention, as it were, by making some violent effort to save himself from falling, he found that he was talking to them.
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

'He's all right, my old man is,' he says confidently when I probe him on the point; adding just now to this invariable reply, 'And look here, Miss Schmidt, Vicki's all right too, you see, so what's the funk about?'
— from Fräulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther by Elizabeth Von Arnim

"It may seem very odd, caballero; but, with all due deference, I am obliged to observe, that I am of a totally different opinion."
— from Stoneheart: A Romance by Gustave Aimard

So they established their little town, and these placid waters became the scene of commercial activity and of warlike enterprise, till generations passed away, and the little French town of Port Royal, after many strange vicissitudes, with its wonderful basin, remained in the possession of the English conqueror.
— from Lost in the Fog by James De Mille

And though I must necessarily treat this part of my subject very inadequately, let me try to gather together the various points on which, as I think, our Easter gladness ought to be built.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) by Alexander Maclaren