But your watchful care is not, however, to cease: and remember that you are not to disoblige me, to oblige her; and that I will not, cannot, yet part with her.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

"There are such lots of horrors this morning," she added, clearing a space in the centre of the confusion and rising to yield her seat to Miss Bart.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

They had agreed to see the Carnival at Rome that year, and that Franz, who for the last three or four years had inhabited Italy, should act as cicerone to Albert.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Dr. Brainard sends his compliments and requests that you join him for consultation.”
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

‘I hope He will, Nancy,’ replied I; ‘and, meantime, I’ll come and read to you now and then, when I have a little time to spare.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

“I think, Charles, poor Mr. Carton deserves more consideration and respect than you expressed for him to-night.”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Anybody who practises a handicraft may come and remain twenty years from the day on which he is enrolled; at the expiration of this time he shall take what he has and depart.
— from Laws by Plato

" "And Mr. Stratton, of the Chicago Argus ," replied the young man, as he buttoned his coat.
— from From Whose Bourne by Robert Barr

very early apply to your confessor, to beg he would enjoin his clergy to denounce that shocking impiety; I could almost recommend to you to add a slight postscript on the massacre of that wretch Manuel.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

And we beseech you, for love's sake, you show, with meekness, your fear and reverence of Christ's institution; your love to the congregation, and regard to your future good.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

211 But fast on that came a report that you—I mean, Le Bourse—had gone post for Albany.
— from Patroon van Volkenberg A tale of old Manhattan in the year sixteen hundred & ninety-nine by Henry Thew Stephenson

"How sorry I am for you!" said Edith, when she could speak, "but may I come and read to you sometimes, and wait upon you when there is no one else?
— from Emilie the Peacemaker by Geldart, Thomas, Mrs.

The lady, thus widowed, shut herself up in her castle and refused to yield to the victor, who had been one of many rejected suitors for her hand in former days, and now saw his opportunity of forcing her to become his wife.
— from Isabel Clarendon, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Gissing

This is notably the case as regards the young oysters already mentioned, which were taken from the shores of England and placed in the Mediterranean, and at once altered their mode of growth and formed prominent diverging rays, like those of the proper Mediterranean oyster ; as also the twenty-nine kinds of American trees, all differing from their nearest European allies similarly —"leaves less toothed, buds and seeds smaller, fewer branchlets," &c. To these may be added other facts given by Mr. Darwin.
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart

“In that way,” said the crafty Frenchman, “you can fulfill your agreement with me, and at the same time save the lives of your companions, and return the young Havard to his father.”
— from The Island of Yellow Sands: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys by Ethel C. (Ethel Claire) Brill

The Committee also requests that you would address all your communications on subjects connected with the exploration to the Honorary Secretary; and that all persons acting with you should forward their communications on the same subject through you.
— from Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia From Melbourne To The Gulf Of Carpentaria by William John Wills