She looked him fiercely in the face for an instant, a strange light in her beautiful, tearful eyes, then cried huskily— “Yes, if you cast me from you, Nino, I care no longer to live.
— from The Day of Temptation by William Le Queux

Harmonious discords of treble and base In strange combinations of guilt and of grace— O whose is the ear that can hear you aright, And note the dark providence mixt with the light?
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

“Well, then,” exclaimed the countess, hastily, “you shall have five francs more for the skin; but go away now.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

May his accents thunder in their ears, Take care how you sow !
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 03 (1820) by Various

I believe I will go to see a practitioner, for if there is anything on this earth that can help your mother I will let nothing stand in the way of a trial of it."
— from The Pastor's Son by William W. Walter