“Let's just stay here and look at things.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

“I promise you,” I said, “to stay here as long as you continue giving me such marks of your love as you have given me this morning.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They being sworn and the charge given them, they fell to our business, finding the heir-at-law to be my uncle Thomas; but Sir Robert [Bernard] did tell them that he had seen how the estate was devised to my father by my uncle’s will, according to the custom of the manour, which they would have denied, first, that it was not according to the custom of the manour, proposing some difficulty about the half-acre of land which is given the heir-at-law according to custom, which did put me into great fear lest it might not be in my uncle’s possession at his death, but mortgaged with other to T. Trice (who was there, and was with my good will admitted to Taylor’s house mortgaged to him if not being worth the money for which it was mortgaged, which I perceive he now, although he lately bragged the contrary, yet is now sensible of, and would have us to redeem it with money, and he would now resurrender it to us rather than the heir-at-law) or else that it was part of Goody Gorum’s in which she has a life, and so might not be capable of being according to the custom given to the heir-at-law, but Will Stanks tells me we are sure enough against all that.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

To this, of course, my friend answered in the affirmative, when the ruffian set him at liberty, after making him drink from a flask of rum which he drew from his coat-pocket.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

She turned at Janetta's words and surveyed herself a little anxiously in a long glass at her side.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

He would know by and by that an honest man was not going to serve him any longer, and lend his honesty to fill a pocket already over-full of dishonest gains.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

She was not used to this type, and felt that there was something hard and low about it all.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

As for her motives for not telling them sooner, she had a long account to reckon for in the next world, and she would reckon for that too.
— from The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Volume 2 by Walter Scott

I have been pained by a sad sight," he added, looking at his wife.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

"It appears that she had a love affair with a man three or four years ago, and recently he has been bombarding her with threatening letters."
— from The Angel of Terror by Edgar Wallace

Did you say,” he added, looking at Abel, who lay huddled, dead drunk, in his chair, “that he dedicated to his country his profoundest and sincerest, or sincerest and profoundest convictions?”
— from Trumps by George William Curtis

Mr. Gladstone's resignation of the leadership at the beginning of 1875 was not, I think, unconnected with the fact that he knew that there were certain active spirits in the Liberal party who, believing themselves fully equal to any position to which they might be called, were unfeignedly anxious that they should have at least a chance of arriving at the front place.
— from Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid 1842-1885 by T. Wemyss (Thomas Wemyss) Reid

In another case, a mother dedicates her son to Shamash, 575 with the stipulation that the son shall support her as long as she lives.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

Festing stopped him and looked at Helen, for he was not deceived by Charnock's injured tone.
— from The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss