"The visitor smiled. 'You have long been a favorite of mine,' he said; 'and I have long observed and often sought to help you.' 'What are you?' cried Markheim: 'the devil?' 'What I may be,' returned the other, 'cannot affect the service I propose to render you.' "
The Most Dangerous Game (1924) Richard Connell
"The general smiled the quiet smile of one who has faced an obstacle and surmounted it with success. 'I had to invent a new animal to hunt.' "
The Street That Got Mislaid (1980s) Patrick Waddington
"Of course, if Green Bottle Street had dropped from the ken of city hall, no inspectors would go there, no census takers, no tax collectors. All would pass merrily by, directed elsewhere by the infallible filing cabinet."
How To Talk To Girls At Parties (2006) Neil Gaiman
" 'What's your name, then?' said Vic. She told him it was Stella, and he grinned his crooked white grin and told her that that had to be the prettiest name he had ever heard. Smooth bastard. And what was worse was that he said it like he meant it."
