“If you have such a suspicion, something must be done; and as soon as the play is all over, we will talk to him seriously and make him know his own mind; and if he means nothing, we will send him off, though he is Henry, for a time.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

As soon as she saw me sh
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And today this good Fairy of mine, as soon as she saw me in danger of drowning, sent a thousand fishes to the spot where I lay.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

If I had my glass here, I would show a sight should make all the women here call me mad doctor.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

And your servant again, said she, my lady, for I think you are dressed out like one.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

I would go to negotiate with her, and as soon as she saw me she called to her maid: ‘Masha, didn’t I tell you not to admit that scoundrel?’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then her ladyship said, Ay, she supposed my master's folly would make us set up for a family, and that the heralds' office would shortly be searched to make it out.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

I do not know if she understood, I believe not; but I was completely satisfied, and sat strengthening my mind for what should follow.
— from David Balfour Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson

And Ile tell you a story, a story so merrye, Concerning the Abbot of Canterbùrye; How for his house-keeping, and high renowne, They rode post for him to London towne.
— from Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

The woman whose immovable composure had conquered Grace Roseberry’s utmost insolence in the hour of her triumph—the woman who, without once flinching, had faced every other consequence of her resolution to ignore Mercy’s true position in the house—quailed for the first time when she found herself face to face with the very person for who m she had suffered and sacrificed so much.
— from The New Magdalen by Wilkie Collins

The child's head dropped against his shoulder and she said, "My name's Dorothea, but my father calls me Thea, and he is the Lord of Combe Ivy."
— from Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard by Eleanor Farjeon

V. The Adventure of the Flora Macdonald ‘This is the point indicated, latitude so and so, longitude so and so,’ said Mr Macrae.
— from The Disentanglers by Andrew Lang

Next morning, an apparition of wonder and fierce beauty, the skua, quite recovered except that he had a lameness in one leg and a weakness in one wonderful eye that would last him a lifetime, came racing down-shore out of a stormcloud into the full gold of the sun at some seventy miles an hour.
— from The Way of the Wild by F. St. Mars

And this chef d'œuvre of antique workmanship surrounds a sharp, shrewdish, modern face, withal pretty.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

Also, Sister Anna said, she moaned instead of singing; though Poppy was aware that she had lovely tunes going on inside her head all the time.
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley