I love to collect pearls, and your eyes are the purest I have ever seen.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

A satisfactory bailiff is hard to find; and I think you and I, Poyser, and your excellent wife here, can enter into a little arrangement in consequence, which will be to our mutual advantage.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

His grave, in the Protestant cemetery at Rome, is still an object of pilgrimage to thousands of tourists; for among all our poets there is hardly another whose heroic life and tragic death have so appealed to the hearts of poets and young enthusiasts.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

Let others do all the praising and yourself enjoy it.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Today it stands at practically its highest point, each individual man, woman, and child having more than 12 pounds a year, enough for almost 500 cups, allotted to him as his portion.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Stap my vitals, said he, them was always the sentiments of honest Frank Costello which I was bred up most particular to honour thy father and thy mother that had the best hand to a rolypoly or a hasty pudding as you ever see what I always looks back on with a loving heart.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

It is as clear as day that you will have to send her to Petersburg at your expense.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

[2] en que los pueblos asiáticos y los pueblos americanos y europeos
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I am as well bred as the Earl's grand-daughter, for all her fine pedigree; and yet every one passes me by here.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“You may prate of your lips, and your teeth of pearl, And your eyes so brightly flashing; My song shall be of that SALIVA CURL Which threatens my heart to smash in.”
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Everywhere the drought prevails, and yet everywhere the refracted rays of light delude the traveller with the image of gleaming lakes and rushing rivers.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

—Charles the Second, king of England, owed William Penn, a young English Quaker, a large sum of money.
— from The Beginner's American History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

I desire you to give me as correct a description as you can at this late period, of the manner in which you and your party, and your enterprise in Oregon, were treated by the Hudson’s Bay Company, and particularly by Doc.
— from The Quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society (Vol. 1, No. 1) by Oregon Historical Society

You can pay as you earn on our deferred payment plan if you choose.
— from Profits from scrap by Chicago American Bureau of Engineering

"Ach, vee vould haf been more flat as a pretzel alretty yet," exclaimed Herr Muller, unslinging his ever ready camera, and preparing to take a photo of the peril which had so narrowly missed them.
— from The Motor Rangers Through the Sierras by John Henry Goldfrap

Then father wrote that if you would do this for me, I could invite you to visit me in New York next winter and he would pay all your expenses.
— from The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold by Margaret Vandercook

And further, y t if any jurisdiction see any danger of any invasion [500] approaching, and ther be time for a meeting, that in such a case 3. magistrats of y t jurisdiction may sum̅one a meeting, at such conveniente place as them selves shall thinke meete, to consider & provid against y e threatened danger, provided when they are mett, they may remove to what place they please; only, whilst any of these foure confederats have but 3 magistrats in their jurisdiction, their requeste, or summons, from any 2. of them shall be accounted of equall force with y e 3. mentioned in both the clauses of this article, till ther be an increase of majestrats ther.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

What he really wanted was to speak out, and yet escape the consequences: by some miraculous reversal of probability to retain his position and yet effect Truscomb's removal.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

for can it make any conceivable difference to the wisdom or the folly of such exhortations, whether the world passes away from us, or we pass away from the world?— whether it 'tumbles to pieces,' as you express it, or (which is too certain) we tumble to pieces?
— from The Eclipse of Faith; Or, A Visit to a Religious Sceptic by Henry Rogers