When two unmarried persons get together, and talk upon such delicate subjects as the present, a great deal of confidence and intimacy is presently established between them.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

I like the sermon well, replied my father,——’tis dramatick,—and there is something in that 254 way of writing, when skilfully managed, which catches the attention.——We preach much in that way with us, said Dr. Slop.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The Three Black Princesses (De drei schwatten Prinzessinnen) 138 Knoist and His Three Sons (Knoist un sine dre Sühne) 139 The Maid of Brakel (Dat Mäken von Brakel)
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

In Nature none: if other hidden cause Left them Superiour, while we can preserve Unhurt our mindes, and understanding sound, Due search and consultation will disclose.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

I hope you'll forgive us some day—” She could say no more, and she turned to go.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

She had hoped that, to a man like her uncle, so discerning, so honourable, so good, the simple acknowledgment of settled dislike on her side would have been sufficient.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

[110] de casa, se compone de un juego del que forman parte [111] un sofá, dos sillones, varias sillas, un piano de cola, vertical o de los llamados mecánicos, mesas de todos tamaños, consolas, canapés, taburetes, escabeles y unas cuantas banquetas para apoyar los pies.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

None the less it is certain that under some dynasties Set himself was adored—the deity of one creed is the Satan of its opponents.
— from In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang

“I wish Herr Adler would come and see us some day,” said Philippa once, when there had been a good many breezes through the house, and the children had at last made peace, and agreed that there had been nothing to quarrel about, but that they were just naughty and silly; “I think he would make us all good.”
— from Squib and His Friends by Evelyn Everett-Green

She was not ungenerous, she was not at heart unjust; she deserved some gentleness of judgment, for she was doing her best to fight her love, for her royal honour's sake and for the sick girl who seemed so poor a rival, but who loved Gilbert Warde as well as she and less selfishly.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

"In a great national crisis like ours, unanimity of action among those seeking a common end is very desirable, almost indispensable, and yet no approach to such unanimity is attainable unless some deference shall be paid to the will of the majority."
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

"We'll put it up some day soon, so it'll take some time, an' more trouble, to get it loose."
— from Johnny Nelson How a one-time pupil of Hopalong Cassidy of the famous Bar-20 ranch in the Pecos Valley performed an act of knight-errantry and what came of it by Clarence Edward Mulford

It can even weigh benefits and obstacles upon such delicate scales that in this regard it is perhaps the most cautious, the most prescient, and the shrewdest of human feelings.
— from Whirlpools: A Novel of Modern Poland by Henryk Sienkiewicz

“I always felt you'd turn up some day,” said Mrs. Gimpson.
— from Odd Craft, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

At night us seed dose soldiers peepin' 'round de house and us run 'way in de bresh.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration