Oh, Aramis!” continued Athos, shaking his head mournfully, “upon my soul, you make me the most miserable of men; you disenchant a heart not wholly dead to friendship.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I left it to him to do as the Duke of York pleases; and so fell to other talk, and with great freedom, of public things; and he told me, upon my several inquiries to that purpose, that he did believe it was not yet resolved whether the Parliament should ever meet more or no, the three great rulers of things now standing thus:—The Duke of Buckingham is absolutely against their meeting, as moved thereto by his people that he advises with, the people of the late times, who do never expect to have any thing done by this Parliament for their religion, and who do propose that, by the sale of the Church-lands, they shall be able to put the King out of debt: my Lord Keeper is utterly against putting away this and choosing another Parliament, lest they prove worse than this, and will make all the King’s friends, and the King himself, in a desperate condition: my Lord Arlington know not which is best for him, being to seek whether this or the next will use him worst.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But they had to take me and I was there four months until Mrs. Spencer came.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

And to the great majority of Europeans and Americans, mysticism is a most convenient noun, applicable to anything which may seem reasonable yet wholly untranslatable in terms of their own individual experience; and mysticism usually means something quite the reverse
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

"Then, that you will not give me up?" "Mamma!" said Margaret, entreatingly.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Miss Halcombe, after once or twice hesitating and checking herself, in a most uncharacteristic manner, spoke at last.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Make up my sum.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

i. 1. 202: "Would the nobility lay aside their ruth, And let me use my sword, I'd make a quarry With thousands of these quarter'd slaves," etc.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

[474] Deliver message from my Monsignor, With varletry at lounge i' the vestibule I 'm barred from, who bear mud upon my shoe.
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

Have mercy upon my soul!
— from Vandrad the Viking; Or, The Feud and the Spell by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

Our mothers in France are matchless; but they tie us to their apron-strings too [ Pg 76] much: they make us more supple and more amiable, but they enervate us.
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

Garnet was tolerably composed, but Winona was suffering from a bad attack of that most unpleasant malady "stage fright."
— from The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil

“But this state of things is terrible,” I declared, shifting myself upon my side so that I could better look into his face.
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux

You may be sure we allowed no one to know how near we were to ruin on the first evening; but, on the contrary, I endeared every one to me by my gay manner of losing, and the Finance Minister himself cashed a note for 400 ducats, drawn by me upon my steward of Ballybarry Castle in the kingdom of Ireland; which very note I won from his Excellency the next day, along with a considerable sum in ready cash.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Musampay unyà mi sa inyug higabin-an mi, We’ll put up at your house if it gets to be night.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

and may misfortune--for good fortune has nothing to do with us--not make us meet soon again."
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

The third column moved upon Mumfordville, surprised the six thousand men in that place, and pushed on towards Louisville.
— from The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy by Charles Carleton Coffin