Curious, lamentable: all these men have the word Republic on their lips; in the heart of every one of them is a passionate wish for something which he calls Republic: yet see their death-quarrel!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“Say,” Case remarked, “you seem to be an all-right policeman.
— from The Six River Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence; Or, The Lost Channel by Harry Gordon

The country requires your services to bring to a successful termination the important and delicate question of Oregon.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

Mr Curran replied, “Yes, sir; the maker’s name is stamped upon the blade .”
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 51, June 19, 1841 by Various

“Come along, Harry,” cried Reggy, “you said there would be time for a bathe before breakfast.”
— from The Young Berringtons: The Boy Explorers by William Henry Giles Kingston

You cannot recover your surprise to see a river in this dry country burst suddenly out of the ground.
— from In the Levant Twenty Fifth Impression by Charles Dudley Warner

"She can ruin you," said the poor girl, almost crying, "and she will if she learns the truth."
— from The Mandarin's Fan by Fergus Hume

I cannot recommend your skill too highly.
— from The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand by Ray Vaughn Pierce

Is there anything I could refuse you?' said the mother, eagerly, moved by the sight of tears in Vernon's innocent blue eyes.
— from The Golden Calf by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon