We sit, for example, side by side with all castes and peoples.' 'Yea, and with most outrageously shameless ones,' said the wife, scowling at the Amritzar girl making eyes at the young sepoy.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

And lastly, if you would like to know in confidence, as perhaps you may, what is my opinion of my husband, my opinion is—that I almost love him!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I saw you coming and pointed you out and he went away.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

His fences were continually falling to pieces; his cow would either go astray, or get among the cabbages; weeds were sure to grow quicker in his fields than anywhere else; the rain always made a point of setting in just as he had some out-door work to do; so that though his patrimonial estate had dwindled away under his management, acre by acre, until there was little more left than a mere patch of Indian corn and potatoes, yet it was the worst-conditioned farm in the neighborhood.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

Of this, we have a remarkable instance in Cato of Utica, who discovered afar off, and long foretold, the approaching ruin of his country, both in the first conspiracy, and as it was prosecuted in the civil war between Cæsar and Pompey, yet did no good the while, but rather hurt the commonwealth, and hurried on its destruction, which Cicero wisely observed in these words: “Cato, indeed, judges excellently, but prejudices the state; for he speaks as in the commonwealth of Plato, and not as in the dregs of Romulus.”
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

"There is no denying it," said the duchess; "but still, if we are to believe the history of Don Quixote that has come out here lately with general applause, it is to be inferred from it, if I mistake not, that you never saw the lady Dulcinea, and that the said lady is nothing in the world but an imaginary lady, one that you yourself begot and gave birth to in your brain, and adorned with whatever charms and perfections you chose."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

With what pretty vexation you reproach his indiscretion when he comes and prevents you saying something to his credit, or listening to what I say about him, or finding in my words some new excuse to love him!
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Read on, good friend, as patiently as you can, and perhaps you will be as sorry for Rosanna Spearman as I was, when I found out the truth.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

It’s like helping an outside passenger up, ven he’s been pitched off a coach, and puttin’ your hand in his pocket, vile you ask him, vith a sigh, how he finds his-self, Sammy.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

you come to See the water & roads to Clear them as Clear as possible you just now Come to See us, & we wish you to tell our Grand ftar that we wish the road to be kept Clear & open.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Although the horizon may be clear at present, yet I consider that the prospect of the United States is anything but cheering.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

By cock and pie, you shall not choose, sir!
— from The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare

It will be a little one, you will have to drag your canoe, perhaps for miles, under branches that close over the creek and you may have to carry your canoe and pack your dunnage over prairie land.
— from Dick in the Everglades by A. W. (Anthony Weston) Dimock

But so would chickens; and probably you will not get that many.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

"No," she said, "I don't think you are any of you mean; but I am disappointed: I like people to have the courage of their convictions, and particularly you, Fee."
— from We Ten Or, The Story of the Roses by Barbara Yechton

After one or two pointless questions had been put to the witness by members of the jury, his place was taken by his colleague, Dr. Copping, a pushing young medico who, though he had only been in Cromer a year, had a rapidly-growing practice.
— from The Place of Dragons: A Mystery by William Le Queux

Now, Marian, attend," he continued, "and put your arms round my shoulders, so.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Kratippus was more than a philosopher: he was a pleasant companion, and perhaps young Cicero liked his table-talk as much as his philosophy.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 4 (of 4) by Plutarch

"If you want to sew, mother," he said, "you can make some of Althea's clothes, and pay yourself out of the ten dollars a month allowed for her clothes."
— from Dan, the Newsboy by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Oh, well I've seen so much conjuring at parties, you know, Father, that I don't notice it
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 8, 1893 by Various