Yer hands don't shake, and yer eyes don't look as if ye was tryin' ter hold back the Angel o' Death himself, when you're jest doin' yer DUTY, Mr. Tom they don't, they don't!”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The true wisdom, he would argue, is essentially spiritual and yet essentially definite; while the false is argumentative, is speculative, 101 | and dwells on the veritable mystery.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

"You really are the most extraordinary fellow I ever met with," rejoined Vernon, "striving, as you ever do, to cook up good of some kind or other out of the most evil materials; and every misfortune, by some wonderful philosophy hatched up by your ingenious brain, you pretend to convert into a benefit.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various

"Your nose doesn't swell and your eyes don't pop out.
— from The Auction Block by Rex Beach

“It is lawful,” replied the maiden, “to recover our friends by force or device, if they are detained by treachery; but remember, dear Reginald, that vengeance belongs not to our erring and fallen race; if the Upsaroka should sin as you expect, defeat, if you can, his evil schemes, but leave his punishment to the Great Avenger, who can make his latter days loathsome as those of Gehazi, or his death sudden and fearful as that of Ananias and his guilty spouse.”
— from The Prairie-Bird by Murray, Charles Augustus, Sir

Accustomed as I was to swift transport, I spent a year every day.
— from An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson

Why, by Jove, because he that is in a great storm cannot be far off a shipwreck; and your extreme danger will soon land you upon Death's strand.
— from Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

"It's the curiest story as you ever did hear.
— from Mattie:—A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by F. W. (Frederick William) Robinson

"But Kurguz Mehmed got stronger and younger every day now.
— from Dust of New York by Konrad Bercovici

If you are so ill advised as to look dubious and express an impression that it had been otherwise, you are met with a calm, indulgent smile at your evident deficiency of intelligence: “Dear me!
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

"Perhaps," Julian said, as now they were drawing near Belize--"perhaps it will not be necessary that I should apprise you each day of my safety, of the fact that everything is all right with me.
— from A Bitter Heritage: A Modern Story of Love and Adventure by John Bloundelle-Burton