he exclaimed, with yet greater enchantment; “then I am very happy indeed, madam; I had been afraid at first there was some mistake in the honour you did me.”
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

I am going to read up all about the Highlands, and learn the tartans, and the names of fishes and birds; and I will walk in the rain and try to think nothing about it; and perhaps I may learn a little Gaelic: indeed, Keith, when you see me in the Highlands, you will find me a thorough Highland-woman."
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

The only covert reference he made to the event was to murmur discreetly in my ear: “I have brought up a bottle of the Pommery, Sir Marcus, in the hope you would drink some.”
— from The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel by William John Locke

"Awh, my dear," cried Joan, "unless you'm wantin' to see murder in the house you mustn't braithe no word of it.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, August, 1880 by Various

The highest affection you can now show me, is to hide your tenderness from my view and to renounce me for ever.
— from Solitude With the Life of the Author. In Two Parts by Johann Georg Zimmermann

After a pause he said: "May I tell him you said so?"
— from The Ne'er-Do-Well by Rex Beach

The invading fleet were still moored in the harbour, yet the fishermen shot past unheeded by these leviathans of the deep.
— from Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby

Little Ann, tightening her lips, walked to the next colony of Nemesia, and bent over the colonists with concentration, showing clearly that she had found something more interesting than had yet been encountered.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

May sick men, if they have your wish, be well; And Heavens hate those you curse, though I be one.
— from Philaster; Or, Love Lies a Bleeding by John Fletcher