what a young ’un!” said Haley; “that chap’s a case, I’ll promise.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

A. We have not yet heard what he wishes to say to us, up to the present he has only promised to say something—something as yet unheard, so he gives us to understand by his gestures, for they are gestures.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

CUT: And your uncle, sir, he thinks 'twas done by your procurement; therefore he will see the party you wot of presently: and if he like her, he says, and that she be so inclining to dumb as I have told him, he swears he will marry her, to-day, instantly, and not defer it a minute longer.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

“Your grammar is excellent,” Professor Hilton informed him, staring at him through heavy spectacles; “but you know nothing, positively nothing, in the other branches, and your United States history is abominable—there is no other word for it, abominable.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Vos al verle así asaltar You, upon seeing him try la celda tan de improviso, your cell door suddenly os desmayasteis..., preciso; fainted.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

He went on, sarcastically, quoting from an editorial in the last American paper that had come to Los Arboles: “In order that these here bandits kin exercise the ‘sacred right of revolution to reg’late their own internal affairs’ your Uncle Samuel has kindly supplied ’em with the latest smokeless cartridge.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

'I'll get some of the ladies of my committee sent out here as History-lecturers at your University,' says he.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

And raising a glass as yet untouched, “Señores,” he said, “Spain and the Philippines forever!” “You’re not going!” said Santiago in amazement.
— from An Eagle Flight: A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

A young urchin seized his brother's sword, almost as long as himself; the mother and sisters clung to his side.
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

You annoy your uncle," said her mother severely.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

"I refuse to accept your ultimatum," said he one day to Napoleon, after a protracted conference.
— from Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica by John Kendrick Bangs

And: “You understand,” said he, “that you bought it from a gentleman who had purchased it abroad.”
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

She was like the Constance of the old days at Eyethorne, and yet unlike; something had been lost, something gained; for Nature, archaeologist and artist, is wiser than man in her restorations, restoring never on the old vanished lines.
— from Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson