If you were heir to a dukedom and a thousand pounds a day, do you mean to say you would not wish for possession? Pooh!
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Let foplings sneer, let fools deride, Ye heed no idle scorner; Free hands and hearts are still your pride, And duty done, your honor.
— from Anti-Slavery Poems and Songs of Labor and Reform, Complete Volume III of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

You may have seen him about my place, a delicate dark young man, with very fine eyes and a little moustache.
— from Falk: A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad

"If you were dying of thirst I'd pour alkali dust down your throat.
— from Prairie Flowers by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

Could he have seen, Carrados would have received the impression of a plainly, almost dowdily, dressed young woman of buxom figure.
— from Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah

Now she’ll get her rights, perhaps.” CHAPTER XXIV—MARGIT PAYS A DEBT “Did you hear what that girl said, Laura?” demanded Bobby, in a whisper, clinging to the arm of Mother Wit.
— from The Girls of Central High on Track and Field Or, The Champions of the School League by Gertrude W. Morrison

He proceeds,— [99] “I passed a delightful day yesterday.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

Or, rather, Miss Thurston does.” “Mr. Townsend,” said Barbara, her face pale as death, “did you not see Mrs. Post’s necklace when you took off her wrap in here?” “No,” said Harry quietly.
— from The Automobile Girls at Newport; Or, Watching the Summer Parade by Laura Dent Crane