and Henry would have blushed and said, “Yes; he’d just come over to see a man;” and Anne would have said, “Oh, I’m so glad to see you!
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

A relaxation in one instance establishes a claim to it in others, which every repetition of indulgence makes it more difficult to resist; each of these, in succession, becomes a precedent for more, until the standard of proficiency sinks gradually to something almost contemptible.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

She heard the men I sent disputing at the door, and she gathered the sense of Heathcliff’s answer.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

What the Sand gets, the Sand keeps for ever.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

“And where sleeps Gurth the swineherd?” said the stranger.
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Dear, dear, to think how much time we passed alone together afterwards, and how often I repeated to the doll the story of my birthday and confided to her that I would try as hard as ever I could to repair the fault I had been born with (of which I confessedly felt guilty and yet innocent) and would strive as I grew up to be industrious, contented, and kind-hearted and to do some good to some one, and win some love to myself if I could.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Thesis, who is so good that she says only what she thinks and is so honest that she never suspects others of diplomatic pretenses, took me at my word.
— from Jack Ballington, Forester by John Trotwood Moore

"I'm so glad to see you," Milly began lamely.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

These suggestions are given by an [465] experienced game warden: "Take the boxed birds out near some good, thick shelter where they can hide and gain confidence.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Outdoor Work by Mary Rogers Miller

In civil life, doubtless, the same genius, the same endowments, have often composed the statesman and the prig, for so we call what the vulgar name a thief.
— from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

What I would recommend to speculators is to purchase in some good town sites.
— from Minnesota and Dacotah by C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Andrews

Given the immediate opportunity and the absence of the supreme, supervening goodness that stood between me and myself, and I should have been a murderer.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 20, October 1874‐March 1875 by Various

And she gave the second inviting proclamation (to every one that came not that day) on the feast day of the Assumption of our Blessed Lady Mary in harvest, at or in the Rath-Imayn, and so we have been informed that that second day in Rath-Imayn was nothing inferior to the first day.”
— from The Old Irish World by Alice Stopford Green

"I am so glad to see you," she said, trying to seem cheerful.
— from A Tale of a Lonely Parish by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford