Since then, at court, I have seen a rising blush or beginning pallor suppressed completely; yet this is theoretically impossible.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But just the primer to a life Unopened, rare, upon the shelf, Clasped yet to him and me.
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

"Now don't say so 'cause you think I want 'em.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Though they had ever since the spring been expecting Pyotr Verhovensky, whose coming had been heralded first by Tolkatchenko and then by the arrival of Shigalov, though they had expected extraordinary miracles from him, and though they had responded to his first summons without the slightest criticism, yet they had no sooner formed the quintet than they all somehow seemed to feel insulted; and I really believe it was owing to the promptitude with which they consented to join.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

My ear would catch your voice, my eye your eye, / My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

This request I make thus gently and quietly, that, if you comply with it, I may have reason for thanking you; and, if you will not voluntarily, this lance and sword together with the might of my arm shall compel you to comply with it by force."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“Aye, aye, man,” said Bartle, with a tone of sarcastic consolation, “you talk the right language for you.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Let me thank you for so considerately yielding to my disinclination.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

My ear should catch your voice, my eye your eye, My tongue should catch your tongue's sweet melody.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

"I say, can you tell me all about those stories?
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

If your act should cause you to be referred to with reprobation, not to say scorn, by the ladies or gentlemen of fashion who are certain to espouse the cause of the lady, your subsequent conduct will show them that they mistook your character.
— from Fanny's First Novel by Frank Frankfort Moore

By these remarks, coming from a particular friend, I was embarrassed, but soon learned that I must leave all, and part with my dearest companions for Christ; that two masters it was impossible to serve; and in my indecision I seemed to hear a voice as from heaven, saying, 'Choose ye this day whom ye will serve,' impressing my mind with the idea that then was the time for me to secure an interest in the Great Redeemer.
— from Memoir of Rev. Joseph Badger Fourth Edition by E. G. (Elihu Goodwin) Holland

Yet he went on feeling cheap; and when Tussie who was hurrying along with a cup of chocolate in each hand ran into him and spilt some on his sleeve the sudden rage with which he said "Confound you, Tussie," had little to do with the hot stuff soaking through to his skin and a great deal with the conviction that Tussie, despised from their common childhood for his weakness, smallness and ugliness, would never have done what he had just done and betrayed what the girl had chosen to keep secret from her maid.
— from The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight by Elizabeth Von Arnim

[Pg 22] Jerking his thumb significantly in the direction of the cash-drawer, he whispered: "He'd as soon cut your throat as not—for what ye've got there."
— from By Right of Conquest: A Novel by Arthur Hornblow

His deformity of body—that my judgment still confounds; Yet that proof alone is wanting—what shall then my judgment be?
— from Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

This body of Christians, at this day so extensive and respectable, of course felt the especial weight of the persecution of the Established Church, with which it refused to hold the slightest communion; yet to such a degree did it flourish—a proof of the onward spirit of the time, that Sir Walter Raleigh declared in Parliament that there were before the death of Elizabeth not less than 20,000 members of that body in Norfolk, Essex, and the neighbourhood of London.
— from Cassell's History of England, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Wars of the Roses to the Great Rebellion by Anonymous

"Well, upon my soul," cried young Tom, "if it isn't Euphrasia!"
— from Mr. Crewe's Career — Volume 3 by Winston Churchill

Foremost in each little party walked the austere father, perhaps bearing on his arm a suckled infant, or some child yet too young to sustain its own weight; while at a decent distance followed the equally grave matron, casting oblique and severe glances at the little troop around her, in whom acquired habits had yet some conquests to obtain over the lighter impulses of vanity.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

If he is, I shall call you to witness that I’ve worked very hard.”
— from First in the Field: A Story of New South Wales by George Manville Fenn