She added, rather pathetically, “You should not answer me without thinking, as if things were easy, instead of so hard.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

Aloud she said, “All right, Peg, you go next.
— from Crossed Trails in Mexico Mexican Mystery Stories #3 by Helen Randolph

"I agree with much that you have said, as regards past years : but you must not put all down to pride ; you must make more allowances for men's peculiar habits, and circumstances, and manners.
— from Stones of the Temple; Or, Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Walter Field

"It would be such a relief, provided you really wanted to marry him.
— from Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster

On the other hand, little Rawsden had been cracking his joke about Hector, etc., to a Miss Sneef, a rather pretty young boarder, whom he honored by confiding to her his more successful sarcasms; and, when she imparted to him, next day, the news of Barrington's capitulation, he had the presence of mind to smile pallidly and look as if he had known all about it from an early period of his existence.
— from True, and Other Stories by George Parsons Lathrop

The country in the vicinity of Mount Warning appears to be productive and wooded; for although the hills are steep and rather precipitous, yet their verdant and agreeable appearance augurs favourably for the fertility of the valleys between them.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 by Philip Parker King