So if you ask him what he sees, he replies, “A broken stick,” for he is quite sure he is experiencing this sensation.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

William saluted her rather absently, but she flushed with joy at his conventional courtly compliments which her inexperience took literally.
— from Prince and Heretic by Marjorie Bowen

" "You're quite right, sir," he replied, a bit shamefacedly.
— from The Red Planet by William John Locke

I shook hands round and bowed stiffly to Ellerton, whom I had not spoken to since the duel.
— from Sea-gift: A Novel by Edwin W. (Edwin Wiley) Fuller

Florence herself had read every word in Harry's language, not knowing, indeed, that she had read anything, but still never having missed a single letter.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

Sometimes he rode alone, but sometimes Lettice rode beside him:
— from The Wave: An Egyptian Aftermath by Algernon Blackwood

She uncovered her face to shew her respectful attention, but she could not raise it up, and could not utter a word.
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 3 by Fanny Burney

It is not, as some have reported, a Bishop's see, though the Bishop generally resides there.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 2 by Willis Fletcher Johnson