As to you, prince, I know that you have sent money secretly to Burdovsky’s mother through Gania.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If, sir, you do not in the shortest possible time after receiving this letter return me in full, first, the three hundred and fifty roubles I gave you, and, secondly, all the sums that should come to me according to your promise, I will have recourse to every possible means to compel you to return it, even to open force, secondly to the protection of the laws, and finally I beg to inform you that I am in possession of facts, which, if they remain in the hands of your humble servant, may ruin and disgrace your name in the eyes of all the world.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You remember that you once found a frog in the middle of a circle of fire and that you picked it up and put it into the water.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“Let me tell you, Winnie,” he said with authority, “that your place is here this evening.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

For one day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson of my staff was sent to Helena, Arkansas, to examine and open a way through Moon Lake and the Yazoo Pass if possible.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

As to your practice, if a gentleman walks into my rooms smelling of iodoform, with a black mark of nitrate of silver upon his right forefinger, and a bulge on the right side of his top-hat to show where he has secreted his stethoscope, I must be dull, indeed, if I do not pronounce him to be an active member of the medical profession.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

As to your packets, if you seal them up, and lay them in the usual place, if you find it not suspected, I will watch an opportunity to convey them; but if they are large, you had best be very cautious.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

But to men of Mr. Deane's stamp, what goes on among the young people is as extraneous to the real business of life as what goes on among the birds and butterflies, until it can be shown to have a malign bearing on monetary affairs.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

We wish that you may all know Spanish and that you pronounce it well, so that you won’t split our ear-drums with your twist of expression and your ‘p’s’; 4 but first business and then pleasure: finish your studies first, and afterwards learn Castilian, and all become clerks, if you so wish.”
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

As the years passed it seemed likely that Hilda's malady would grow no worse.
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster

Balt said nastily, "I am astonished that you persist in bringing members of the lower orders into my home, Nadine."
— from Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds

“When we reach the city of New York I will consult you as to your plans in life.
— from Tom Temple's Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

The destruction they work among the young partridges in early summer is very great.
— from The Gamekeeper at Home: Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies

During the summer of 1908, remembering what I had witnessed about twenty years previously, I made careful inquiries about the disuse of working-oxen by Sussex farmers.
— from Byways in British Archaeology by Walter Johnson

If you should think that Lee would desire it, and the thing should appear to you proper, it should be suggested to your senators.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

At fairs, as well as hirings, it is customary for all the young people in the neighbourhood to assemble and dance at the inns and alehouses.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Cortes established his centre of operations in the city of Texcoco, capital of the nation of the same name, on the eastern extremity of the lake, and the young Prince Ixtlilxochitl, whom he installed upon the throne of that kingdom, was his powerful ally.
— from Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by C. Reginald (Charles Reginald) Enock

It is in general impossible to assign any distinct exciting cause for the affection, though the fact that in two-thirds of the cases it occurs between the ages of six months and three years, proves it to be in some way intimately associated with teething.
— from The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West