Celia was feeling profoundly shy, and her shyness, as usual, veiled itself by excessive stiffness.
— from White Turrets by Mrs. Molesworth

From the rear, a shrill voice in broken English shrieked adjurations to the chauffeur to hurry.
— from The Radio Boys with the Border Patrol by Gerald Breckenridge

He has a lightness of touch that is entirely captivating, and his remarkable characterization of inconsequent people gives them a reality that is very insistent.”— Baltimore Evening Sun “Never has he drawn so deeply from that well that is the human heart; never so near those invisible heights which are the soul; and, if we are not altogether mistaken, ‘The Glory of Clementina’ will also prove to be that of its author.”— Baltimore News “A fascinating story with delicate, whimsical touches.”— Albany Times-Union “The book seems destined to live longer than any written by the author to date, because it is so sane and so fundamentally true.”— Philadelphia Enquirer JOHN LANE
— from The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol by William John Locke

The best exposition of the imagination from this point of view is by E. S. Dallas, who published The Gay Science , in two volumes, in 1866.
— from The Literature of Ecstasy by Albert Mordell

Value it beyond everything! Shall never forget Grizzlegut!
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

I felt some one poke me in the back, and a voice in broken English said, “But stare not so.
— from Dumps - A Plain Girl by L. T. Meade

I will also exchange foreign stamps for their [Pg 63] equivalent value in birds' eggs, shells, minerals, curiosities of all kinds, or for other stamps.
— from Harper's Young People, November 23, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

The night of the day in which I had gone below we were playing a rubber of whist in the cabin when the port-hole at my head was pushed open, and a voice in broken English shouted, "Crazee manee; he makee firee, firee!"
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie