"How was that?" "Why, the man was so badgered and worried and tortured by being knocked about from post to pillar, and from pillar to post," said Mr. George, "that he got out of sorts.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

" "You will not give any hint of the plan to Fred, until you are sure that Bulstrode would agree to the plan?" said Mrs. Garth, in a tone of gentle caution.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"Did ever anybody hear the like i' this parish?" said Mr. Glegg, getting hot.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

If there were any crime in the practice, so many godly men would not agree to it.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

"Then you really and truly at this point," says Mr. Guppy, "give up the whole thing, if I understand you, Tony?"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

"You shall have the paper," says Mr. Guppy.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

"All the gods appear to me," said Gangler, "to have great power, and I am not at all surprised that ye are able to perform so many great achievements, since ye are so well acquainted with the attributes and functions of each god, and know what is befitting to ask from each, in order to succeed.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

You must finish that picture soon, my good Frans.
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

"So must I, or they will be waiting for me at the hospital. Give me a handful of flowers, David: they often do the poor souls more good than my prayers or preaching."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

The poor second mate grew worse and worse.
— from The African Trader; Or, The Adventures of Harry Bayford by William Henry Giles Kingston

"You may go down with this party," said Mr. George, "and then you can come up and take care of Rosie while I go down with our guide."
— from Rollo in Naples by Jacob Abbott

He probably attended Perugino to Fano in 1497, when painting those lovely altar-pieces in S. Maria Nuova, which yield to no other production of his placid and expressive pencil, although we can scarcely accept a tradition which ascribes to the pupil some Madonna groups in the predella, upon the ground of their excelling his master's capacity.
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 2 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630. by James Dennistoun

Having then satisfied myself that my work was as my mother would have desired, I counted the setting-up stitches anew to make certain of their number, and began the second sock, my heart content at thought of the pleasant surprise my gift would be.
— from It Pays to Smile by Nina Wilcox Putnam

"I suppose you have been sailing foreign a good deal in your time, pilot?" said Mr. Gordon, when he was seated.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton