“We can quite understand,” and staring hard at me all the time, he heeled his chair back until it very nearly upset, and recovered with some exertion.
— from The First Men in the Moon by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

[Pg 44] On hearing the lady's footstep she turned around quite unabashed and said, "He'll be ready in a minute, miss.
— from Just Irish by Charles Battell Loomis

He knew it was quite useless, and so he submitted with a meekness that was rather deceptive, for it seemed to indicate that he was quite [Pg 33] awed by his situation and the men who had taken him captive.
— from Frank Merriwell's Backers; Or, The Pride of His Friends by Burt L. Standish

“No one dare give an opinion; my poor master is quite unconscious, and should he recover—and I do not think for a moment that he will—the doctor says his mind will have entirely gone.” “Horrible!
— from The Champdoce Mystery by Emile Gaboriau

That I could quite understand, as she had behaved so badly in both.
— from The Celebrity at Home by Violet Hunt

She rose in her excitement; she could see that he admired her, and was enjoying her insolence too, in a way, though in a way that she did not think she quite understood; and she had the wish to make him admire her a little more.
— from The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete by William Dean Howells

For his services in China he received the thanks of Parliament and was made a K.C.B. [503] Miss Eden’s criticism of Charles Elliot’s conduct was quite unjust, and subsequently he was completely cleared of all blame.
— from Miss Eden's Letters by Emily Eden

He can only think of the strangeness of his destiny that it has come to pass that he should be the servant of one so great, and whose infinite kindness, the brightness of whose intelligence and the firmness of whose will, have enabled him to undertake labours to which he otherwise would be quite unequal, and supported him in all things by a condescending sympathy, which in the hour of difficulty alike charms and inspires.
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

The little girl's dreams that night were, we can well imagine, quite unlike any she had ever had before.
— from Napoleon's Young Neighbor by Helen Leah Reed