Valentine sends many affectionate remembrances to your dear Eugénie.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I will put you in safety meanwhile, and return to you immediately."
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Burns immediately guessed what she meant, and regarding the young lady with a look of great benignity, said, 'Thank you, my dear, for your kind attention; but
— from Robert Burns by John Campbell Shairp

And that reminds you how the whirlpool of life's cares and duties has almost engulfed these sweet memories; and resolutely turning your back upon them all, you sit down and write a warm heart-letter , which comes to her in her distant home, like a white-winged dove at the window of a dreary winter day.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern

[pg 129] 'Oh, but he told you so much as relates to you and your uncle, Mr. Silas Ruthyn, of Bartram-Haugh?' 'No, indeed, sir.'
— from Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

His arm was again thrust aside; but this time the woman raised her disengaged hand at the same moment, and removed the yellow mask.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

“Are you still of the same mind about returning to your people?”
— from Moon of Israel: A Tale of the Exodus by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

So much all right that you can afford to slip 'em a couple of thousand apiece on top of what they have already spent.
— from The Landloper: The Romance of a Man on Foot by Holman Day

"I fear we are walking over trap-doors, whose secret mouths are ready to yawn on the unsuspecting victim."
— from Ernest Linwood; or, The Inner Life of the Author by Caroline Lee Hentz