Nothing can be plainer or simpler than its vocabulary, yet how rich is it in all that concerns the moral, the spiritual, and even the intellectual interests of humanity!
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

"You see that I value your good opinion, Captain Prescott," she said, smiling slightly.
— from Before the Dawn: A Story of the Fall of Richmond by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

I had no evil—not even a violation of manners—in my intentions; but I am sorry that I vexed you," I said.
— from My Brilliant Career by Miles Franklin

But though the stately stories of these royal progresses to the tomb of the martyred archbishop strike the imagination vividly, yet the picture presented by Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” is in reality much more impressive.
— from The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See by Hartley Withers

Smile, or I shall think I vex you.
— from The Happy Hypocrite: A Fairy Tale for Tired Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

[Pg 150] states that many individuals are light-brown or yellowish-grey, with irregular brown streaks, or crowded dots: he states that in very young specimens the colours are paler, and the valves spicular.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

“Ella,” he began, “since I saw that it vexed you the other night I have said nothing more about your—well I can only call it prejudice against your sisters.
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

"Why you have not the impertinence to suppose that I value your incessant attentions," said she; "can you not imagine how tired I am of being the sole object of your love.
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

"If yer don't believe me," said the indifferent villager, "yer kin ask his mother-'n-law; she lives jist over there."
— from Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 by Various