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Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

• “The child that was half-baptized Oliver Twist, is nine year old today.”
• “They’re all in one story, Mrs. Mann. That out-dacious Oliver had demogalized them all!”

Mary Shelly - Frankenstein

• I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.
• Henry rejoiced in my gaiety, and sincerely sympathized in my feelings:

King James Bible

• 40:003:006 And were baptized of him in Jordan, confessing their sins.

Walter Scott - Ivanhoe

• which they certainly would never have gained had not the manners and style been in some degree familiarized to the feelings and habits of the western reader.

George Elliott - Middlemarch

these maybe from American version, check

• and are dispersed among hindrances, instead of centring in some long-recognizable deed.
• but of course he theorized a little about hisattachment.
• She would perhaps be hardly characterized enough if it were omitted

Jane Austin - Pride and Prejudice

• Miss Bennet was therefore established as a sweet girl; and their brother felt authorized by such commendation to think of her as he chose.
• I cannot be otherwise than concerned at being the means of injuring your amiable daughters, and beg leave to apologize for it

George Orwell - 1984

• He moved over to the window: a smallish, frail figure, the meagreness of his body merely emphasized by the blue overalls which were the uniform of the party.

Shakespeare

Much ado about nothing

• Well, you temporize with the hours. In the meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to Leonato's:

King Lear

Then let them anatomize Regan; see what breeds about her heart.

Macbeth

• A woman's story at a winter's fire, Authorized by her grandam.