"Dear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dear, good Stephen, may all be forever buried which has for so long kept us apart. I have torn your heart I know. The agitation that you must constantly have noticed in me has punished me enough. It was not malice that prompted ...
— Beethoven • George Alexander Fischer
... "My dear chap!" he insisted, "I can't think of it. Surely—there's nothing to call you away." Then with an evident desire to shift the venue of our talk, he asked, "You never told me what you thought of ...
— In the Days of the Comet • H. G. Wells
... father said to me, and as much as the teacher beat me, it was all rubbish to me when I came home, and had the pleasure of seeing my one and only dear friend—my little knife. The pleasure was, alas! mixed with pain, and embittered by ...
— Jewish Children • Sholem Naumovich Rabinovich
... know anything about it, my dear sir. Your friends, the rebels, are burning all the cotton they can find, and I confiscate the ...
— Lincoln's Yarns and Stories • Alexander K. McClure
... caused them little grief. Having extinguished the flames, they all lay down to finish off the night under a neighbouring tree, and even its architect became so oblivious of what had occurred that he employed the remainder of his slumbering hours in dreaming of the home in old England, and of that dear mother whose last letter was still carefully guarded in the pocket of the coat that covered ...
— The Crew of the Water Wagtail • R.M. Ballantyne
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