"Very well," said the Voice, in a tone of relief.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And after these tragic, these desolating propositions, we are told in the last proposition of the whole book, that which closes and crowns this tremendous tragedy of the Ethic , that happiness is not the reward of virtue, but virtue itself, and that our repression of our desires is not the cause of our enjoyment of virtue, but rather because we find enjoyment in virtue we are able to repress our desires.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

Probably, as the verb is Amare , the oldest reading was Amar and not Amor .
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike

“But why did you not help him in the hunt?” asked Elsie of Victor, in a tone of reproach.
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

It is about seventy miles long, ten or twelve miles wide, and extends to the eastward in a nearly straight line between the south end of Vancouver Island and the Olympic Range of mountains on the mainland.
— from Steep Trails California, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, the Grand Canyon by John Muir

There shall always lack the requisite word for them who have made many a dull morning splendid with faith, they who have been the human indication immeasurably of the sun's rising, and of the truth that vision is a thing of reason.
— from Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley

She picked him up and could hardly control her voice into a tone of respectfulness as she spoke: "Monsieur Insborg demands if he can see Madame in half an hour.
— from The Price of Things by Elinor Glyn

I find no fault in it, unless perhaps that Joanna's ruin is a catastrophe too trite; and this is not the first or second time you have clothed your indignation, in verse, in a tale of ruined innocence.
— from The Best Letters of Charles Lamb by Charles Lamb

No one really credited the miller's absurd suspicion, nor the outrageous accusations born of them, but the people were all very poor and very ignorant, and the one rich man of the place had pronounced against him.
— from A Dog of Flanders by Ouida

Her old power over me reasserted itself, and for a moment I forgot all resentment in a passionate kiss; nevertheless, a slight feeling of anger remained at the bottom of my heart, and presently found vent in a torrent of reproaches.
— from The Confession of a Fool by August Strindberg

Both those that returned and the friends of those who perished, being very indignant at this, openly revolted against him.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Herodotus Being Parts of the History of Herodotus, Edited for Boys and Girls by Herodotus