“No, sir; I am not on such terms with my relatives as would justify me in asking favours of them—but I shall advertise.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Having uttered this elegant harangue, on which he seemed to plume himself, Morgan replied, “I do partly guess, and conceive, and understand your meaning, which I wish could be more explicit; but, however, I do suppose, I am not to be condemned upon bare hearsay; or, if I am convicted of speaking disrespectfully of Captain Oakum, I hope there is no treason in my words.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Note 96 ( return ) [ I have already said in a note on bk.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

And, in truth, a very prudent, diligent, and subtle inquisition is required in such searches, indifferent, and not prepossessed.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

But still I am not frightened.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Nature has imprinted in beasts the care of themselves and of their conservation; they proceed so far as hitting or hurting to be timorous of being worse, of themselves, of our haltering and beating them, accidents subject to their sense and experience; but that we should kill them, they cannot fear, nor have they the faculty to imagine and conclude such a thing as death; it is said, indeed, that we see them not only cheerfully undergo it, horses for the most part neighing and swans singing when they die, but, moreover, seek it at need, of which elephants have given many examples.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

See, I am not crying now.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And he didn't even know who I was till I took the calf's-foot jelly, and had to make him understand that Aunt Polly didn't send it, and—” Nancy sprang to her feet and clasped her hands together suddenly.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

'I wish you were in my new study; I am now writing the first letter in it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Mineral pigments next occupy his attention, with many interesting notices of the great painters of Greece; from which he passes on to the various kinds of stone and materials employed in building, and the use of marble for the purposes of sculpture, including a notice of that art and of the most eminent sculptors.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

“My will,” he said, “is as naught before the ambitions of these two.
— from The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series by Rafael Sabatini

"It is a death-dirge," said Githa, with whitening lips, but she spoke inly, and neither husband nor son heard her words.
— from Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The nuclei in the yolk are knobbed bodies divided by a sponge work of septa into a number of areas each with a nucleolar body.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

"'Hey, come back here, you confounded cut-throat!' the financier yelled after the real estate man, who had the bank president's clothes, shoes and hat slung in a neat bundle over his shoulder.
— from Taking Chances by Clarence Louis Cullen

Watching the skies diligently, he saw a dark thundercloud coming up over Philadelphia late in the evening of July 4, 1752, and at once sallied forth from his house, situated at the corner of Race and Eight streets, into a neighbouring field.
— from Lightning Conductors: Their History, Nature, and Mode of Application by Anderson, Richard, F.C.S.

[his subject I am not, Nor here provincial]
— from Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies by Samuel Johnson

But indeed the biological remarks of this accurate observer in regard to certain definite natural objects must have produced a still deeper impression upon him, pointing, as they do, to questions which hay attained so great a prominence at the present day; such as, Why is any creature anywhere such as we actually see it and nothing else?
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler

There is a natural strength in a new faith, and when it is tried by war and persecution it seems to rise to a divine power.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various