'Then, are you already in another House, John?' 'Yes, my darling.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

He is very nice, that young man; do you know him?
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

" "What do you mean, Dejah Thoris?"
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

"With this cold weather," she smilingly urged, "it's too kind of you, my dear child, to think of coming to see me; come along on the stove-couch at once!—Bring some tea," she continued, addressing the servants, "and make it as hot as it can be!"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

At this question the young man dropped the whole lot on the ground with a crash.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

When a proposition is enunciated you must imagine the proof; that is, you must discover on what proposition already learnt it depends, and of all the possible deductions from that proposition you must choose just the one required.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Yes, I shall make my way as well as another," Osborne went on; "but you, my dear girl, how can I bear your being deprived of the comforts and station in society which my wife had a right to expect?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

“Yes, my dear Marina, I do love you, but if you wish to be my mistress, you must be only mine.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If you cause any distortion in the growth of a tree and make it crooked, whatever you may do afterwards to make the tree straight the mark of your { 231} distortion is there; it is absolutely indelible; it has become part of the tree's nature....
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

And, lad," the priest hesitated, glancing doubtfully from Miss Sutherland to me, "I'm thinking there's a service ye might do her."
— from Lords of the North by Agnes C. Laut

Your own enthusiasm has made it appear attractive, I will confess; and if all its followers were really like yourself my dear Marcellus, it might be adapted to bless the world.
— from The Martyr of the Catacombs A Tale of Ancient Rome by James De Mille

Still trembling with fright the faithful soul had great trouble in arranging her young mistress' dress and hair.
— from Klytia: A Story of Heidelberg Castle by Adolf Hausrath

V. Letter XX. Apprehensive for both our safeties from the villany of such a daring and profligate contriver, I must call upon you, my dear, to resolve upon taking legal vengeance of the infernal wretch.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson

Corneille, at sixty-five years, wins the love (a tradition in the Escoubleau family) of the very young Marquise de Contades, by promising her to send her name down to posterity:— "Chez cette race nouvelle, Où j'aurai quelque crédit, Vous ne passerez pour belle Qu'autant que je l'aurai dit."
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

Good sense and right feeling will here easily draw the line, abstaining from charities that have a real influence in encouraging improvidence or vice, yet making due allowance for the normal weaknesses of our nature.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

If the second copy is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further opportunities to fix the problem.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 19 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

The old gentleman was in the best of tempers, and the two young men did their best to keep him in it, indorsing all his views as to the lax morality and disgraceful tone which pervaded modern literature and modern society; and when they had done their duty in this way they rewarded themselves by going in next door and having tea with Dora Chatterton, a young lady
— from Sport Royal, and Other Stories by Anthony Hope