I am, with much respect, yours truly, W. T. SHERMAN, Brigadier-General commanding.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

I am, with much respect, your obedient servant, W. T. SHERMAN, Brigadier-General commanding Fifth Division.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

“And here’s a glass of gin and water, widow,” said Mr Trotman, “and when Mowbray rallies you shall come and pay for it.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The maiden answered, "Come here again to-morrow evening about sunset, and if I meet you in my snake-form, and wind myself round your body like a girdle, and kiss you three times, do not start or shrink back, or I shall again be overwhelmed by [Pg 318] the waters of enchantment, and who knows for how many centuries?"
— from The Hero of Esthonia and Other Studies in the Romantic Literature of That Country by W. F. (William Forsell) Kirby

I am, with much respect, Your ladyship’s obedient servant, F. MOUNTAGUE.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

Hankow The Camels Whence do you come, and whither make return, you silent padding beasts?
— from Profiles from China Sketches in Free Verse of People and Things Seen in the Interior by Eunice Tietjens

If ever seen at all, 'tis when after many a mile in sun and wind — maybe rain — you reach at last, with the folding star, your destined rustic inn.
— from Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame

That we to you our festive laurels owe, And the fair lily, rescued from its stroke; Another wreath may round your temples bloom, In that Fabricius you preserved to Rome.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

“Nor do I, in frankness I may admit,” was my rejoinder, “yet know ; but I think this letter will help me to the solution of the whole mystery of the case.”
— from Secret Service; or, Recollections of a City Detective by Andrew Forrester