Are you going to begin life over again this year?"
— from The Confession of a Child of the Century by Alfred de Musset

"This is all very true, I dare say," observed the pacha; "but you will oblige me by leaving out all those you knows , which I agree with your comrade Hussan to be very tedious."
— from The Pacha of Many Tales by Frederick Marryat

Keyse responded, lighting his pipe, for his wife and daughter had accompanied him to their own private parlour in the basement, looking out across the yard to the garage over which Billy and Janey had been born: "Twice a day since you and me stood up before the dodger to git married.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

For, I am sure, where you were best loved of all, there you are best loved still."
— from The Smuggler: A Tale. Volumes I-III by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But you had better look out; another time you won't find me so patient.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

And of his children two, she seide him this, That they be lyke, of alle thing, y-wis, 1570 To Iasoun, save they coude nat begyle; And preyed god, or hit were longe whyle, That she, that had his herte y-raft her fro, Moste finden him to her untrewe al-so, And that she moste bothe her children spille, 1575
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The ancient farm wagon complicated, doubtless, with sundry Conwell improvements, drawn by a venerable horse, was so well loaded that the seat had to be left out, and the youthful driver was forced to stand.
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr

"I suppose," she ventured, after long thinking, "that that's the money we've been living on all these years?"
— from The Street Called Straight by Basil King