Handsome he's to be, and bold, Agreeable, young, and neither cold Nor jealous.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

'Are you always as busy as you are now?' 'Busier.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Then suddenly they heard, far away as it might be, and yet apparently nearly over their heads, a confused murmur of sound, as if people were shouting and cheering and stamping on the floor and hammering on tables.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

You have been, and you are now, and you always will be,” Varvara Petrovna concluded impressively.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“A teacher you cannot be, and you are not yet entitled to a pension.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For as those bodies of ours, that have a living soul, though not as yet a quickening spirit, are called soul-informed bodies, and yet are not souls but bodies, so also those bodies are called spiritual,—yet
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

You should consider, Balbus, what ought to be allowed you, and not advance things because they please you.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Know, you young greenhorn, that I was covered with honours before ever you were born; and you are nothing better than a wretched little worm, torn in two with coughing, and dying slowly of your own malice and unbelief.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You have now understood the causes which brought about the Record of the Stone, but as you are not, as yet, aware what characters are depicted, and what circumstances are related on the surface of the block, reader, please lend an ear to the narrative on the stone, which runs as follows:— In old days, the land in the South East lay low.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

But, as you are neither coward nor traitor, I shall make bold to say that you are a madman."
— from The Sword of Honor; or, The Foundation of the French Republic A Tale of The French Revolution by Eugène Sue

That child will have to take up its own burthen by and by, as you are now bearing yours; but for the present don't drop your pall over its golden sunshine.
— from Folly as It Flies; Hit at by Fanny Fern by Fanny Fern

One appeared to be a youth about nineteen or twenty, and the other a man of middle age: As I had now no other resource, I fired a musquet between them.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Then came a sighing out of the tall, dark fir-trees; and they said, "That is very true, you clever boy; and you are not to be afraid of us, when our cousin, the storm, comes rushing at us, and we have to hold a rather strenuous bit of argument with that rough customer."
— from The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

[115] Already is discharg’d: the other part As brauely, and you are not onely free, But crownd with praise for euer.
— from The Fatal Dowry by Philip Massinger

By the way," he went on, turning to Mr. Baxter, "are you any nearer fastening the guilt on those two rascals, Field and Melling?" "Bless my prosecuting attorney, no!"
— from Tom Swift Among the Fire Fighters; Or, Battling with Flames from the Air by Victor Appleton

If that man be Stig Anderson,"--he added, "you need not mention your fair name or your fair deed--for in that case you were as certainly with Marsk Stig and the grey friars in Finnerup barn as you are now with Jeppé the fisherman on the road to judgment and the gallows."
— from King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. by Bernhard Severin Ingemann