And would it cost you anything to accommodate yourself to his fantasies?
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

You were such a thin, longlegged creature, with your hair hanging on your shoulders; you used to wear short frocks, and I used to tease you, calling you a heron....
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

'It's a choking you are,' said I, 'but you shan't have your own way, and die so easily, either, if I can punish you by keeping you alive.'
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

“Can you always get in another show?”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

I wrote to Charles yesterday, and Fanny has had a letter from him to-day, principally to make inquiries about the time of their visit here, to which mine was an answer beforehand; so he will probably write again soon to fix his week.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Yet could those days return—could you and I once more walk our thirty miles a-day—could Bannister and Mrs. Bland again be young, and you and I be young to see them—could the good old one shilling gallery days return—they are dreams, my cousin, now—but could you and I at this moment, instead of this quiet argument, by our well-carpeted fireside, sitting on this luxurious sofa—be once more struggling up those inconvenient stair-cases, pushed about, and squeezed, and elbowed by the poorest rabble of poor gallery scramblers—could I once more hear those anxious shrieks of yours—and the delicious Thank God, we are safe , which always followed when the topmost stair, conquered, let in the first light of the whole cheerful theatre down beneath us—I know not the fathom line that ever touched a descent so deep as I would be willing to bury more wealth in than Croesus had, or the great Jew R—— is supposed to have, to purchase it.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

What, and have your name prostituted in a public court; yours and your daughter’s reputation worried at the bar by a pack of bawling lawyers?
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Un huracán, una ráfaga de viento arranca con facilidad estas masas inmensas que parecía desafiaban a todas las convulsiones y a la duración misma de los siglos.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

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— from The Etymology of Local Names With a short introduction to the relationship of languages. Teutonic names. by Richard Morris

"What sort of a looking man was the one who caught you?" asked Carrie.
— from The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car; Or, The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley by Laura Lee Hope

What took place, in a word, was that Clement Yule, already fidgeting in his impatience back from the front, just occupied the arch, completed her thought, and filled her vision.
— from The Two Magics: The Turn of the Screw, Covering End by Henry James

Take care; you are behindhand.
— from William Shakespeare by Victor Hugo

“Can you?” asked Phil, doubtfully, for his enemy was as large as Dick.
— from Phil, the Fiddler by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"'Come, you are one of us once more.'"
— from Anything You Can Do ... by Randall Garrett

He told her the dream and she listened gravely, though she answered carelessly, "You are over-tired.
— from Star: The Story of an Indian Pony by Forrestine C. (Forrestine Cooper) Hooker

“Of course you are not going to stay here, now you are alone?” said Ned, after a look around.
— from Joe the Hotel Boy; Or, Winning out by Pluck by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Come, my poor girl, calm yourself a little; try not to grieve so.
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VIII) by Paul de Kock