Many a child-murder may possibly be explained by the habit of some animals of consuming their young immediately after giving birth to them.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

“I feel as if, coming to you, I had landed on a peaceful shore after the noise and jolting of a steamer.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But though in this particular, and perhaps in their success, the truth-finder and the gold-finder may very properly be compared together; yet in modesty, surely, there can be no comparison between the two; for who ever heard of a gold-finder that had the impudence or folly to assert, from the ill success of his search, that there was no such thing as gold in the world?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I can tell you——”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

and I know you did your utmost to deliver him from them, but without success, until I came to your assistance.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school; and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be us'd, and, contrary to the King, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Oh, I entreat you, my son, if you had entertained such an idea, dispel it; and my counsel to you—nay, my prayer—is to retain his friendship.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There's not much true shame about her, I can tell you that....”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At last our predictions have come true: yesterday evening at half-past eight Afimya Skapidarov fell down with a basin of soup and broke her leg.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The usurer had no intention of giving up his prey without a struggle, however, and turning to Florestan, with the same ease as if they had been on the most friendly terms, he said conciliatingly: "M. Louis Richard can tell you what conditions I proposed and under what circumstances I made him this offer; you will then be better able to judge if my demands were exorbitant.
— from A Cardinal Sin by Eugène Sue

'I will do my best to be a companion to you until Margaret arrives.'
— from In the Days of Poor Richard by Irving Bacheller

"As it was, I jumped into the air and give out a ringin' whoop, and felt mighty savage and peart like; then I struck out for Wyoming, and I've done some tall traveling, I can tell you.
— from Wyoming by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Loiter about here till I come to you, and it shall not be long.”
— from Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. by Charles James Lever

Thirty yards from home the new boy is up to his man, and before the winning-post is reached he is a clear ten yards ahead.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

Very willingly, quoth Pantagruel, I condescend to your request.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais