"My dearest Melicent," said he, fondly, "I don't wish you to be like any body but yourself; only control your spirits to-day, that's a good girl."
— from Manners: A Novel, Vol 3 by Madame Panache

When he came more fully to himself, he was in a little room in the court-house, and Billy's arm was lying protectingly across his shoulder, while Billy's father was bellowing like a bull: 'Be you goin' to let him go!
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

When he came more fully to himself, he was in a little room in the court-house, and Billy's arm was lying protectingly across his shoulder, while Billy's father was bellowing like a bull: "Be you goin' to let him go?
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

"And as to behaving like a beastly bounder, you'll apologize for it before you leave this room," a soft voice said.
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

I know you far too well, Iris, to permit you to go back to Bootle to be lectured and browbeaten by your uncle.
— from The Stowaway Girl by Louis Tracy

You must leave the farm and go to Bulawayo—the farmhouse will be looted and burned, but you shall reach Bulawayo in safety; I say it.'
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

It was sot jest below the two winders, and when the sun came kinder softly through the curtains down into the white posies they seemed to sort o' blush like a beach blow; yit they raly were as white, according to natur, as the cleanest handful of snow you ever see.
— from High Life in New York A series of letters to Mr. Zephariah Slick, Justice of the Peace, and Deacon of the church over to Weathersfield in the state of Connecticut by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

Tired and hungry, and then baited like a bull by your rusty wits!
— from In Sunny Spain with Pilarica and Rafael by Katharine Lee Bates