The only interruption we meet with is bad words, and a few stones now and then; and I am become so marked, that I cannot go out without people crying after me, "Methodist!
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

I saw that the very moment that I came in.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

In the mean time I can give you some idea of the shape.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

“By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

I felt that I must cast off the oppression under which I was living, at once and for ever—yet how to act for the best, or what to say first, was more than I could tell.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Meanwhile, I love you more than I can say.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

It is true that certain strokes of good fortune, that have given me more than I could have hoped for, have made some alteration in me; but I have not therefore ceased to be what I was before, or to entertain the same desire I have had all through of availing myself of the might of your valiant and invincible arm.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Oh, I can’t make you so much trouble; I couldn’t think of it.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

This was lucky; for I should have had none else, but at the pleasure of my rough-natured governess, as I may call her; but now I can write to ease my mind, though I can't send it to you; and write what I please, for she knows not how well I am provided: for good Mr. Longman gave me above forty sheets of paper, and a dozen pens, and a little phial of ink; which last I wrapped in paper, and put in my pocket; and some wax and wafers.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It is only at moments that I can feel that we shall meet on earth no more.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

I learned from this person that the coast to the north of Oliphant River is entirely destitute of water, and without inhabitants; and I mention this in case any persons who peruse this narrative should be driven on this coast, that they may know where to obtain succour.
— from The Loss of the Australia A narrative of the loss of the brig Australia by fire on her voyage from Leith to Sydney by Adam Yule

It is more than I can bear."
— from The Motor Pirate by G. Sidney Paternoster

Last night I told Mr. Tarboe I could not marry him.
— from Carnac's Folly, Volume 3. by Gilbert Parker

This was almost more than I could stand.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Yet, while I am writing this paragraph, there passes by my window, on his daily errand of duty, not seeing me, though I catch a glimpse of his manly features through the oval glass of his chaise, as he drives by, a surgeon of skill and standing, so friendly, so modest, so tenderhearted in all his ways, that, if he had not approved himself at once adroit and firm, one would have said he was of too kindly a mould to be the minister of pain, even if he were saving pain.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Now, it cannot be denied in an ethnological sense that the Celtic nature is peculiarly sensitive; any more than it can be denied historically that its good feelings have been too often systematically crushed, and its generous impulses seared.
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper