Will not the curse of your unfortunate child, if she lives, be harder to bear than the hate of such a miserable wretch as your step-brother?"
— from Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. by Wilhelmine von Hillern

Then he answered quietly: "I am, according to popular opinion, anything but a poor man, and though those dykes have bled me, such a match would, as you suggest, be unequal from a financial point of view, unless Helen marries against my wishes.
— from Thurston of Orchard Valley by Harold Bindloss

You won't let any one say a mean word against your sweet little snookie-ookums.
— from Sunny Slopes by Ethel Hueston

I don’t know what it is, child, but you seem to set all men wild, and you so demure and sweet!
— from The Luminous Face by Carolyn Wells

"It's rather hard, Annie," he continued, with a deeply injured air, "to see another more welcome at your side than I am."
— from Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe