But, on the whole, the evenings were her happiest times: for then David read aloud while she worked; she sung to the old piano tuned for her use; or, better still, as spring came on, they sat in the porch, and talked as people only do talk when twilight, veiling the outer world, seems to lift the curtains of that inner world where minds go exploring, hearts learn to know one another, and souls walk together in the cool of the day.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

TIGELLINUS On what subject, sire?
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

The ballad quoted by Addison is not that of which Sidney spoke, but a version of it, written after Sidney's death, and after the best plays of Shakespeare had been written.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“He may have a great deal of influence on some points,” continued Mrs. Weston, “and on others, very little: and among those, on which she is beyond his reach, it is but too likely, may be this very circumstance of his coming away from them to visit us.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

“Remember that boys who insist on having their own way, sooner or later come to grief.”
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

Suddenly the old woman said, rather more loudly than was necessary: 'Wait!
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

How Mrs. Jewkes used me upon this occasion, when she found me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

It is written in such a spirit that she who really desires to learn the truths of which she cannot with justice to herself or others be ignorant, may do so without being shocked; while he who hopes to stimulate a vicious imagination by its perusal will turn from its pages disappointed away. FROM REV.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

Now you are to observe what sort of a man Keawe was, for he might have dwelt there in the Bright House for years, and no one been the wiser of his sickness; but he reckoned nothing of that, if he must lose Kokua.
— from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson

Among the forty slaves that the trader had on this occasion, were some whose appearance indicated that they had seen some years and had gone through considerable service.
— from Clotelle; Or, The Colored Heroine, a tale of the Southern States; Or, The President's Daughter by William Wells Brown

Shelby paid no more attention to her than he paid to the quarreling jays in the holly trees, and the order was sharply repeated.
— from Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

Charles-Norton pivoted on his heel, and started for the office, worried suddenly by the thought that he was late.
— from The Trimming of Goosie by James Hopper

Do not be afraid——” She spoke with the gentle consideration of a great lady to one whom she admired for her heroism, compassionated for her position, and thought naturally in need of such encouragement.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

Bright gleams, that oft we set at nought; Sweet messengers from Heaven's own clime.
— from Lays from the West by M. A. Nicholl

"Mother," he began, in a tone of which she could not comprehend the bitterness, "will it wound you to know that in this matter I was not so dutiful a son?
— from Mrs. Dorriman: A Novel. Volume 1 of 3 by Chetwynd, Henry Wayland, Mrs.

Here are Ned and I, who only get a peep of home once a week, and even on that occasion we seldom get half a peep of you.
— from Hollowmell or, A Schoolgirl's Mission by E. R. Burden

But Creedle carried about with him on his uneventful rounds these silent testimonies of war, sport, and adventure, and thought nothing of their associations or their stories.
— from The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy