Clara Talboys returned to Dorsetshire, to tell her father that his only son had sailed for Australia upon the 9th of September, and that it was most probable he yet lived, and would return to claim the forgiveness of the father he had never very particularly injured; except in the matter of having made that terrible matrimonial mistake which had exercised so fatal an influence upon his youth.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Oswald only meant to be kind, and by making this amusing remark he wished to draw his erring brother's thoughts from the remorse that was poisoning his young life, and would very likely keep him awake for an hour or more thinking of it, and fidgetting about so that Oswald couldn't sleep.
— from Oswald Bastable and Others by E. (Edith) Nesbit

“Mrs. Purvis, have you lost a gold-mesh bag?”
— from The Gold Bag by Carolyn Wells

"Did the police have you look about?"
— from Ashton-Kirk, Investigator by John Thomas McIntyre

Perhaps he yet lives and sadly sings the misfortunes of his sisters.
— from Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. by Novalis

You were M. Pons' housekeeper, you looked after his affairs, and he has been robbed—" "Robbed!
— from Poor Relations by Honoré de Balzac

You were M. Pons’ housekeeper, you looked after his affairs, and he has been robbed—” “Robbed!
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

If you are a landscapist, Turner must be your only guide (for no other great landscape painter has yet lived); and having chosen, do your best to understand your own chosen master, and obey him, and no one else, till you have strength to deal with the nature itself round you, and then, be your own master, and see with your own eyes.
— from The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm by John Ruskin