"It is so beautiful to be loved as Laurie loves me; he isn't sentimental, doesn't say much about it, but I see and feel it in all he says and does, and it makes me so happy and so humble that I don't seem to be the same girl I was.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

He isn't sentimental, doesn't say much about it, but I see and feel it in all he says and does, and it makes me so happy and so humble that I don't seem to be the same girl I was.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

She had a secret hope that, if she went down there, she might herself see something shining in a dark corner; and what if it should be a piece of yellow gold, just suitable to be made into a ring to contain the oyster pearl!
— from Dotty Dimple Out West by Sophie May

The young man looked very pleased to see her, and said he thought it must be she who had secretly kept his house for so many days.
— from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

"Go along, then," he said, as he gently pushed Raoul out of the cabinet; and then, taking hold of Montalais's hand, he said in a low voice, "Be kind toward him; spare him, and spare her, too, if you can."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

At the other side was the wall of brick pressing against the window-pane, this wall she hated as she hated the idea of the commonplace in life.
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

Again he saw her, and saw her terrible in power.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

“Go along, then,” he said, as he gently pushed Raoul out of the cabinet; and then, taking hold of Montalais’s hand, he said, in a low voice, “Be kind towards him; spare him, and spare her, too, if you can.”
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

"Seven at night," said he, "and so hungry that I ate what they call marble cake for supper, and a great many other things out of little side dishes, and nearly died of indigestion afterward.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill