And the stone and gilt image, whose smile always gave her such a queer feeling, almost a pain and yet a pleasant pain, seemed to-day to be more than smiling.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

However, don’t let me disturb your meditation; you are possibly planning some pastoral dialogue.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

In the first place, I wish to lay before you a particular, plain statement, touching the living bulk of this leviathan, whose skeleton we are briefly to exhibit.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

“But where is the use of going on,” I asked, “when you are probably preparing some iron blow of contradiction, or forging a fresh chain to fetter your heart?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

“Had you a pleasant passage, sir?”
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

For I was just running under the wheel of a carriage, when a gentleman catches me in his arms, and says he, you are prodigious pretty, says he;
— from The Heroine by Eaton Stannard Barrett

We see that you are peaceful people, so we warn you.
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin

I have often been struck at the admiration, alike poetical and religious, with which they inspire you,—you, a poor prisoner so long deprived of them.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

“Veronique must cost you a pretty penny,” said a hatmaker who lived opposite to the Sauviats and had designs on their daughter for his son, estimating the fortune of the old-iron dealer at a hundred thousand francs.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Antes dexavan pasar un año, ó mas de otro, en el qual consideravan bien que era mejor para regir ó governar el estado, y aquel permanecia por señor.'
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Are you a poor pedlar selling glasses from a tray?
— from The King of Alsander by James Elroy Flecker

FI' ER Y, ardent; passionate. PLUMES, supplies with feathers.
— from Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Embracing a Full Exposition of the Principles of Rhetorical Reading; with Numerous Exercises for Practice, Both in Prose and Poetry, Various in Style, and Carefully Adapted to the Purposes of Teaching in Schools of Every Grade by Charles W. (Charles Walton) Sanders