"Louise Vanderkelkov has fallen ill—at least so her ridiculous mother asserts; for my part, I feel sure she might play if she would: it is only good-will that lacks.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

"Or do you think that would make it a petticoat party?" "I fear so," she said, laughing, as she stood up.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"I beg your pardon: I forgot," she said.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

“We had better go straight to that place in front,” she said, “where you look at the view.”
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

exceptione habet divulgatum id per omnes æquè gentes Lucani proverbium : Invida fatorum series summisque negatum Stare diu.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

“Thou thinkest, poor ignorant fool,” she said to the bewildered woman, “that I have not the power to slay.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

It is repeated use that gives a method definiteness; and given this definiteness, precipitation into formulated statement should follow naturally.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

The Pythagoreans do seem to give a more credible account of the matter, who place “One” among the goods in their double list of goods and bads: which philosophers, in fact, Speusippus seems to have followed.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

Your reasons, pray? —I fancy, Stephen said as he ate, it did not exist in or out of the Mabinogion.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

It was so simple that the maker thought that he could have it done before the wedding and he agreed to take it apart and pack it for shipment so that there would be no danger of its not making its journey safely.
— from Ethel Morton at Rose House by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith

[107] The committee, in its Report, referred especially to my evidence, and, in the main, adopted my view, expressing an opinion “that the companies should afford to the Post Office, at the same charge as would be paid by private individuals for similar services, every assistance which might add to the convenience of the public.
— from The Life of Sir Rowland Hill and the History of Penny Postage, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Hill, Rowland, Sir

We assemble briefing packages that bring together reports from all the departments, including PHOTOINT, photo intelligence from satellite surveillance."
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover

The author's last visit to Marion — interesting conversation on the importance of public instruction — free schools shown to be a great saving to a nation.
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

In every room of the house pictures were being swathed in tarletan, chandeliers wrapped in the same stuff, carpets lifted, furniture put into freshly starched slips, and the entire interior protected to the utmost against the summer's dust and fading.
— from Dorothy by Evelyn Raymond

I have seen so much of these matters, and I am so well convinced of the utter aversion that our people have for them in general, and of the imprudence with which they constantly express it, that I absolutely despair of our seeing tranquillity established, until your Lordships’ plan is fully settled, so as I may have proper persons to reside at the Posts, whose business it shall be to remove their prejudices, and whose interest it becomes to obtain their esteem and friendship.
— from The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

In Sir John Dalrymple, author of an "Essay Towards a General History of Feudal Property", in Francis Stoughton Sullivan's "An Historical Treatise of the Feudal Laws and the Constitution of the Laws of England", Jefferson studied the history of primogeniture and of entails and came to the conclusion that both of them had foundation neither in nature nor in law, and certainly did not appear in England before the Norman Conquest.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

We had just reached the northwest angle of the building, when Narayan Singh, who was walking a pace in front, stopped suddenly and held up both hands for silence.
— from Affair in Araby by Talbot Mundy