"You can read your part, the first time," said some one.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To me you cannot reach you play the spaniel, And think with wagging of your tongue to win me; But whatsoe'er thou tak'st me for, I'm sure
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The wreck in the rocky hills west of the Elbow Canyon railroad yard proved to be less calamitous than Bessinger's report, handed on from the excited alarm brought in by a demoralized train flagman, had pictured it.
— from The King of Arcadia by Francis Lynde

And then I can return your petrol, thank you for your hospitality, and expose my complete ignorance of old prints, all in one afternoon.
— from Second Plays by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

Pretending to be inspired by a courage of which they are incapable, the North American seamen undertake as an enterprise capable of realization the substitution of Protestanism for the Catholic religion you profess, to treat you as tribes refractory to civilization, to take possession of your riches as if they were unacquainted with the rights of property, and to kidnap those persons whom they consider useful to man their ships or to be serviceable in agricultural or industrial labour.
— from The Philippine Islands A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, Embracing the Whole Period of Spanish Rule by Foreman, John, F.R.G.S.

“I can restore your property to you.
— from A Master's Degree by Margaret Hill McCarter

A man with your advanced ideas cannot regulate your pace to that of an old woman.
— from Phyllis of Philistia by Frank Frankfort Moore