I admired the statue of the Virgin, the patroness of butchers, and he told me an amusing story about this, which I will relate some other time, and then Dr. Bonnet said to me: “I must beg you to excuse me for a few minutes while I go and see a patient, and then I will take you to Chatel-Guyon, so as to show you the general aspect of the town, and all the mountain chain of the Puy-de-Dome before lunch.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Be you the example to the rest o' th' court; Put on your hat first.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

If you are cheated out of a single dollar by your neighbor, you do not rest satisfied with knowing you are cheated, or with saying that you are cheated, or even with petitioning him to pay you your due; but you take effectual steps at once to obtain the full amount, and see that you are never cheated again.
— from On the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

“I beg you to excuse my disturbing you,” began Kutsyn, smiling.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The failure of Brigham Young to embody any account of it in his Report as Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

Succeeds a boundless sea, but yet thine eye Some Island moles may scattered there descry; 65 And Sailing towards her India , in that way Shall at her fair Atlantick Navell stay; Though thence the Current be thy Pilot made, Yet ere thou be where thou wouldst be embay'd, Thou shalt upon another Forest set, 70 Where many Shipwrack, and no further get.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Las maderas se benefician y trabajan en los obrajes; y los metales, que se extraen de las minas, se elaboran
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But, Madame, since your noble brothers fortune being yours, the evidences also concerning it are yours, 3 so his vertue 4 being yours, the evidences concerning it, 5 belong also to you, of which by your acceptance this may be one peece, in which quality I humbly present it, and as a testimony how intirely your familie possesseth Your Ladiships most humble and thankfull servant John Donne .
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

The people went out into the woods to seek the May ( majum quaerere ), brought young trees, especially firs and birches, to the village and set them up before the doors of the houses or of the cattle-stalls or in the rooms.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Dear Marwood, shall I be free with you again, and beg you to entertain ’em?
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Roll out, I beseech you, the Epithalamium roundly: let not the fault be imputed to you, if it sounds like a requiem.
— from Barren Honour: A Novel by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

I trust, however, there is enough of this sad case before you to enable you to counsel me, or, what is much better, act for me.
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

I never understood what happened between you two exactly.
— from The Beautiful Miss Brooke by Louis Zangwill

I must beg you to excuse me."
— from Mortmain by Arthur Cheney Train

"But you think ever'body's nice and good," complained Lovey Mary.
— from Lovey Mary by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

I brought you the evidence, by reading a series of official German documents, that the highest authorities of the Army, of the Party, and of the Nazi Government had deliberately chosen to practice a terroristic policy through the seizure of hostages.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

He drove up the alley whistling “Marching through Georgia,” and left his red wagon back of Mr. Tidd’s barn-workshop while he turned Rosinante loose in the back yard to eat the grass and Mrs. Tidd’s vegetable garden.
— from Mark Tidd: His Adventures and Strategies by Clarence Budington Kelland

Again, if an author's style dazzles you instantly and blinds you to everything except its brilliant self, ask your soul, before you begin to admire his matter, what would be your final opinion of a man who at the first meeting fired his personality into you like a broadside.
— from Literary Taste: How to Form It With Detailed Instructions for Collecting a Complete Library of English Literature by Arnold Bennett

That is what I beg you to explain to me.
— from The Elm-tree on the Mall by Anatole France

"It'll look better, you think; eh?
— from The Limit by Ada Leverson