"Heaven forbid!" said he; "it must remain just as it is, for nothing can be more beautiful.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I found that Père Silas (himself, I must repeat, not a bad man, though the advocate of a bad cause) had darkly stigmatized Protestants in general, and myself by inference, with strange names, had ascribed to us strange "isms;" Monsieur Emanuel revealed all this in his frank fashion, which knew not secretiveness, looking at me as he spoke with a kind, earnest fear, almost trembling lest there should be truth in the charges.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

"Oh, what is happening on the western front tonight as I write this, sitting here in my room with my journal before me?
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

They were written whilst I thought your conduct to me cruel; but now I know more particulars of the position you were in I see how inconsiderate my reproaches were.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

But you are even less stern than your father, and surpass him in many respects, as I well know and will demonstrate in my speech as occasion shall arise.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Another answered his confessor, who promised him he should that day sup with our Lord, “Do you go then,” said he, “in my room
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“Now,” said he, “I may require to go in one night from Paris to Tréport; let eight fresh horses be in readiness on the road, which will enable me to go fifty leagues in ten hours.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

She was a pattern of sobriety unto many, very seldom was seen abroad except at church; when others recreated themselves at holidays and other times, she would take her needlework and say 'here is my recreation.' ...
— from History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green

It had all the simple characteristics described by Burns, and there was a heartiness and energy too in the congregation when, as he expresses it, they used to "skirl up the Bangor," of which the effects still hang in my recollection.
— from Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character by Edward Bannerman Ramsay

Macbeth shall sleep no more.' With such horrible imaginations Macbeth returned to his listening wife, who began to think he had failed of his purpose, and that the deed was somehow frustrated.
— from Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb

They came nearer, and, facing me, sat upon a large stone, and gossiped freely concerning the strange sounds heard in my room at the chateau.
— from The Seats of the Mighty, Complete by Gilbert Parker

But, nevertheless, sitting here in my renovated easy-chair, with my feet stretched toward the brass andirons which were the pride of one of my great-grandmothers, listening to the ticking of the old-fashioned clock which belonged to another of them, and conscious that the eyes of my most distinguished ancestor are looking down at me from the wall, I feel bewildered, as it were, by this latter-day metamorphosis, bristling with new and formidable problems.
— from The Opinions of a Philosopher by Robert Grant

“If you stay here, in my room upstairs,” said Cornish, “I will go down to the works now.
— from Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman

"To begin with," said Harris, "I must reply to your first assertion, for I deem your first statement a false doctrine that 'everybody has a right to trade in the world's cheapest markets.'
— from The Harris-Ingram Experiment by Charles E. (Charles Edward) Bolton