The life of the long and busy day—spent in occupations that might so easily have taken a squalid and ugly aspect—had been made pleasant, and even lovely, by the spontaneous grace with which these homely duties seemed to bloom out of her character; so that labor, while she dealt with it, had the easy and flexible charm of play.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

as she ought to have done, she thoughtlessly sang, "Two eyes, are you sleeping?"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

He once visited me at the hotel de St. Simon, as I passed through Paris on my way to England.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But man is a magician, and his whole magic is in this, that he does say Victoria, and lo!
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The highly divided state of Europe has greatly favored the development within its area of isolated fields, each fitted for the growth of a separate state, adapted even in this day for local life although commerce in our time binds lands together in a way which it did not of old.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"I think," said Hastings quietly, "that he does shoot fairly—yes, and even gives one warning."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

No extraordinary discourse of any thing, every man being intent upon his dinner, and myself willing to have drunk some wine to have warmed my belly, but I did for my oath’s sake willingly refrain it, but am so well pleased and satisfied afterwards thereby, for it do keep me always in so good a frame of mind that I hope I shall not ever leave this practice.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Mrs. March was herself again directly; read the message over, and stretched out her arms to her daughters, saying, in a tone they never forgot, "I shall go at once, but it may be too late.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

‘We must burn the house down!’ said the Rabbit’s voice; and Alice called out as loud as she could, ‘If you do.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

He is the son of my friend, the husband died some years ago.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

"And yet I am as certain that it is somewhere about here that he disappeared," said Jim.
— from The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Boothby

They hurried down stairs and entered the carriages that were waiting to take them to the depot—Fabian, Violet, Clarence and Corona in one; Captain and Mrs. Neville, and Mrs. Neville's maid, in the other.
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

To have done so would possibly have seemed like looking a gift-horse in the mouth.
— from Roosevelt in the Bad Lands by Hermann Hagedorn

And I believe that he did so.
— from The Worst Journey in the World Antarctic 1910-1913 by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

[68] Baron Sheffield of Dunamore (1781) was, in September, 1783, created Baron Sheffield of Roscommon, with remainder to his daughters severally.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

Her study hours were observed with such strictness that even when a favored guest at Kensington was about to take his departure, she was not allowed to leave her work for a moment to say good-by.
— from In the Days of Queen Victoria by Eva March Tappan

Yet the multitudes who talk about the book they have never read, as if they had done so, have all along supposed 300 and assumed that the one question thus designedly avoided was the subject of the whole treatise.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various