——Go to the bowling-green for corporal Trim, said my uncle Toby, speaking to Obadiah, as soon as my father left the room. 228 C H A P. LII W HEN the misfortune of my Nose fell so heavily upon my father’s head;—the reader remembers that he walked instantly up stairs, and cast himself down upon his bed; and from hence, unless he has a great insight into human nature, he will be apt to expect a rotation of the same ascending and descending movements from him, upon this misfortune of my N AME ;—no.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

However the unconscious middle-aged lady came into that room, it was quite clear that she contemplated remaining there for the night; for she had brought a rushlight and shade with her, which, with praiseworthy precaution against fire, she had stationed in a basin on the floor, where it was glimmering away, like a gigantic lighthouse in a particularly small piece of water.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

My lord, her wits, I fear me, are not firm; She hath been a suitor to me for her brother, Cut off by course of justice- ISABELLA.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Please say something nice, for she has tried so hard and been so very, very good to me," said Beth in her father's ear.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

I've never felt so happy with any one.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

This, however, he absolutely refused to comply with, sending word to the nobles that he valued his soul beyond all other considerations; and being told that a fellow-prisoner, named Francis Sega, had recanted, he answered, if he has forsaken God, I pity him; but I shall continue steadfast in my duty.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Amory had seen Monsignor go to the houses of stolid philistines, read popular novels furiously, saturate himself in routine, to escape from that horror.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

The fact that up to the present day, nearly half a century after the appearance of Goethe's theory of colours, even in Germany the Newtonian fallacies still have undisturbed possession of the professorial chair, and men continue to speak quite seriously of the seven homogeneous rays of light and their different refrangibility, will some day be numbered among the great intellectual peculiarities of men generally, and especially of Germans.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

She knows the rich Miss Kettering by sight, and admires her honestly, and envies her too, and would give anything to change places with her now, for she has a slight tendresse for good-looking, unmeaning Lacquers.
— from General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

Then when her tired limbs could go no further she halted by the steps and leant her arms on the coping of the balustrade.
— from The Shadow of the East by E. M. (Edith Maude) Hull

"Is this where the Higgins' home should be?" "Why, no, father," said Henrietta, "or it would be here."
— from He Comes Up Smiling by Charles Sherman

"You will not feel so happy when you know, and it's all over and past and forgotten.
— from Five Nights: A Novel by Victoria Cross

A flower, bright-hued and sun-fed, glancing with the dews of youth now, when it had just unclosed, in all its earliest beauty, but already soiled and tainted by the bed from which it sprang, and doomed to be swept away with time, scentless and loveless, down the rapid, noxious current of that broad, black stream of vice on which it now floated so heedlessly.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

Lyman walked out, not feeling so humorous as when he went in.
— from Old Ebenezer by Opie Percival Read

“Oh, Henry,” she exclaimed, “I have been so naughty,” for she had decided to take up this line.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

“Although the evidence pointed to Clem Davis, I’ve never felt satisfied he was guilty.”
— from The Clock Strikes Thirteen by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt