“I have no doubt as to his knowing it, and he may possibly pretend to know nothing before her, as he fears as well as loves her; but if she tells you that he does not object, she either deceives herself or you.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“You knelt up in the temple and he bent to hear you pray, You thanked him for your 'glorious gains'—reproached him for 'Cathay.'” Why could he never get more than a couplet at a time?
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

To my utter astonishment, he replied, "I don't believe it; but if she did acknowledge it, you tortured her into exposing me."
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Don't you think he's the dearest old man in the world?
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Have you had dinner?” “Alexandr Daviditch,” said Laevsky, standing up, “though I did appeal to you to help me in a private matter, it did not follow that I released you from the obligation of discretion and respect for other people’s private affairs.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If any trifling civility is offered by the gentleman beside you, or opposite to you, thank him civilly, if you either accept or decline it.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Would you bring disgrace on her who will one day make you the happiest of men?”
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

he exclaimed—“O, all ye twelve Holy Fathers of our tribe!
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

It is my own dear tongue, for Arabian am I by my birth, even ‘al Arab al Ariba’ (an Arab of the Arabs), and of the race of our father Yárab, the son of Kâhtan, for in that fair and ancient city Ozal was I born, in the province of Yaman the Happy.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

“It’s not certain you’ll lose her; nothing’s settled yet,” their host rejoined quickly; not as if to anticipate their tears, but in the tone of a man saying what was most agreeable to himself.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

I don't understand much how it all has come about, but I know Kut-le, and I'm willing to trust you to him.
— from The Heart of the Desert Kut-Le of the Desert by Honoré Morrow

Quincy found Fernborough but little changed, During the fourteen years that he had been a resident of, or a visitor to, the town there had been but little to disturb its serenity.
— from Further Adventures of Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason Corner Folks by Charles Felton Pidgin

"But, Thorne, don't you think he loves the girl?
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

The many years that he had praised the Ti-pings as holy men were, by a moment of passion, forgotten, and within one day Mr. Roberts not only declared himself to have been deceived so long, but, for the act of one man, gave up the hundreds of thousands in the Ti-ping cause to fire and sword.
— from Ti-Ping Tien-Kwoh: The History of the Ti-Ping Revolution (Volume II) by Augustus F. Lindley

“Then you’ll act as a brother to me if I ever ask you to help me in some critical point of my life?”
— from Three Boys; Or, The Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai by George Manville Fenn

Clemens had then and for many years the habit of writing to me about what he was doing, and still more of what he was experiencing.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg William Dean Howells Literature Essays by William Dean Howells

Yahwe takes his stand in the council of gods:
— from The Assyrian and Hebrew Hymns of Praise by Charles Gordon Cumming

'I haven't said what I wanted—for I told you that I wanted you to help me.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James