“It is not like Udolpho at all; but yet I think it is very entertaining.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

The school is very pleasant, and bless you!
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

What a beast you are though!"
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I am a fatherless child, and want means, I am blithe and buxom, young and lusty, but I have never a suitor, Expectant stolidi ut ego illos rogatum veniam , as [5837] she said, A company of silly fellows look belike that I should woo them and speak first: fain they would and cannot woo,—
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He has deprived you of the Godhead, and of an exalted state like Me, and has not kept his word to you; but has, after all, become your enemy.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

“I will go with all the Dragon-kings and lay an accusation before Yü Huang,” he said.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

Thus, G and J may exchange places, or F and A, but you cannot exchange G and C, or F and D, because in one case they are both white and in the other case both black.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

I, the Fiscal of this Holy Office, appear before your Excellency, and accuse criminally, Leonardo Phelipe, needlemaker, born in the village of Agullon, in the bishopric of Gens, kingdom of France, and an inhabitant of the city of Tarragona, attached to the secret prison of this Inquisition, and now present, inasmuch as he, being a baptized and confirmed Christian, and enjoying all the graces and immunities which such persons may and ought to enjoy, not having the fear of God, his own conscience, or the justice administered by your Excellency before his eyes, has committed offences against our Holy Catholic Faith, by blaspheming and denying God our Lord, seeking favor and help from devils, and doing other things in the manner following.
— from Records of the Spanish Inquisition, Translated from the Original Manuscripts by Andrew Dickson White

“And before you rose did you feel the curious giddiness?”
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

At his side sat two females, the middle one an elderly, grave-looking lady; the other a beautiful young girl, with smiling lips, glowing black eyes, and rosy cheeks.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Edith, Vera, my wronged, my murdered darlings—would God that you might have lived to forgive me for the madness that ruined your lives, and broke your tender hearts!"
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

Ah! while we love—while we are true to each other, here in this land of peace and beauty, your native country, we may reap every tranquil blessing,—what can disturb our peace?"
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Just about midnight a bunch of range cattle ran into us, and before you could say Jack Robinson, our dogies had vamoosed the ranch and were running in half a dozen different directions.
— from The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days by Andy Adams

But you youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get horseback.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

"Stand in the hall and busy yourself somehow."
— from Ashton-Kirk, Secret Agent by John Thomas McIntyre

Oh, Fabian!" cried the alarmed bride, "you were almost knocked under the wheels!"
— from For Woman's Love by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth