“Sir Knight of the Fetterlock,” said Cedric, colouring, and interrupting the King in his turn, “I trust your boon regards yourself and no other; for in that which concerns the honour of my house, it is scarce fitting that a stranger should mingle.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
And though later dogmatism asserts that this knowledge is given by revelation, yet a note of genuine enquiry and speculation is struck in the Vedas and is never entirely silenced throughout the long procession of Indian writers.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir
“But, my dear Callista,” interrupted her brother, “recollect you are not in those oppressive, gloomy forests, but in Sicca, and no one asks you to penetrate them.
— from Callista : a Tale of the Third Century by John Henry Newman
But remember, you are not to disturb the patient.”
— from Nan Sherwood's Summer Holidays by Annie Roe Carr
Mrs. Jo wanted very much to laugh, but kept her [138] countenance, and said impressively, as she pointed to the door,— “You can go, boys, but remember, you are not to speak to or play with the little girls till I give you leave.
— from Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott
"Queer, but Happie is like some of those patent medicines—good for what ails you, and for what ails everybody, eh, Bob?" "Right you are, neighbor mine!" said Bob emphatically.
— from Six Girls and the Tea Room by Marion Ames Taggart
‘Is it true,’ she asked abruptly, standing before him with her hands strained together, ‘that you have been representing yourself as no longer engaged to Marian?’
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing
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