Arkady's only reply was to ask the counter-question: "You have been sitting with Anna Sergievna, have you not?"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

He touched Milo softly on the thigh and said with a smile: "Has your queen anything like that, my friend?"
— from The Pirate Woman by Aylward Edward Dingle

But by my sooth, the time will surely come, and that full speedily, when all shall hail you lord of Bute."
— from The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263) by Robert Leighton

Grace had taken the blame upon herself, of course: she was always shielding her younger sisters.
— from Not Like Other Girls by Rosa Nouchette Carey

On the evening of July 6, Boris Strumolowski—several of whose works were on show there because they were as yet too advanced to be on show anywhere else—had begun well, with that aloof and rather Christ-like silence which admirably suited his youthful, round, broad cheek-boned countenance framed in bright hair banged like a girl's.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let by John Galsworthy

She seized the moment, and throwing back the shawl so that the firelight shone full upon her face and throat, said with a smile, “Have you seen anything better than that in your travels?”
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

The colonel's sister was a slender, handsome young woman, whose dark beauty showed to most effective advantage by the contrast with her companion's fair skin, golden hair, and blue eyes.
— from The Last Trail by Zane Grey

“Yes,” he said, with a strange hesitation, “yes—you are kind.
— from With Edged Tools by Henry Seton Merriman

He came up to me and 228 said, with a smile, "Have you given M. de Talleyrand an account of our long conversation?"—"Of course, Sire, it was too full of interest not to make me anxious to give him that pleasure.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

"Swear by something you possess," the woman said, with a sneer; "honor you never had since I first knew you."
— from The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week by May Agnes Fleming