I behaved terribly to you—and I’ve disgraced the dear friends, Matthew and Marilla, who have let me stay at Green Gables although I’m not a boy.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

One evening, while, with her usual child-like activity, and thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness, she was rummaging the cupboard and the table-drawer of my little kitchen, she discovered first two French books, a volume of Schiller, a German grammar and dictionary, and then my drawing-materials and some sketches, including a pencil-head of a pretty little cherub-like girl, one of my scholars, and sundry views from nature, taken in the Vale of Morton and on the surrounding moors.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Utopus, that conquered it (whose name it still carries, for Abraxa was its first name), brought the rude and uncivilised inhabitants into such a good government, and to that measure of politeness, that they now far excel all the rest of mankind.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

Surely, sir, said I, I am of no consequence equal to this, in your honour's family, that such a great gentleman as you, should need to justify yourself about me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Being finally satisfied, he gives the order, and all the men stand their oars straight up in the air, in line; a blast from the boat's whistle indicates that the signal has been seen; then the men 'give way' on their oars and lay the yawl alongside the buoy; the steamer comes creeping carefully down, is pointed straight at the buoy, husbands her power for the coming struggle, and presently, at the critical moment, turns on all her steam and goes grinding and wallowing over the buoy and the sand, and gains the deep water beyond.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

I tell you she's a good girl and strong, too, and also thrifty.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“I say to him that she's a good girl, and strong, too, and thrifty also.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

She's a good girl and she's only seventeen.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

"She's a good girl, and she has a sweet and gentle nature.
— from The Trembling of a Leaf: Little Stories of the South Sea Islands by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

A crowd like that deserved to see a good game, and that is what they were treated to, the score being a tie in the fifth inning and again in the eighth, it then standing at five each.
— from A Ball Player's Career Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscensces of Adrian C. Anson by Adrian Constantine Anson

She’m such a gude gal, an’ you love her so dearly as what I do a’most.”
— from Children of the Mist by Eden Phillpotts

His coat of glossy black with violet reflections, his dark eyes and sagacious expression of countenance, his stately and graceful gait, and his steady and equable flight, combine to give him a proud and dignified appearance.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Lucy lay back in her corner with that mingled sense of regret and relief with which, when we are very happy at home, we see a guest go away—a gentle sorrow to part, a soft pleasure in being once more restored [Pg 52] to the more intimate circle.
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Good ships and good guns are simply good weapons, and the best weapons are useless save in the hands of men who know how to fight with them.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Theodore Roosevelt

Above all, he must cultivate the moral qualities that of necessity must have a place in such a great, glorious, and unsurpassable game as cricket.
— from Cricket by A. G. (Allan Gibson) Steel