“Alas!” said d’Artagnan, with the most sentimental air he could assume, “can you be cruel enough to put such a question to me--to me, who, from the moment I saw you, have only breathed and sighed through you and for you?”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Thus Epeus, who boasts very much of his skill in boxing, and says very confidently, "I can your body crush, and break your bones," 793 yet says, "Is't not enough that I'm in fight deficient?"
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Edgar Linton came yesterday by chance, Hindley; and it was I who told him to be off: because I knew you would not like to have met him as you were.’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

yes, yea, ay, aye, true; good; well; very well, very true; well and good; granted; even so, just so; to be sure, "thou hast said", you said it, you said a mouthful; truly, exactly, precisely, that's just it, indeed, certainly, you bet, certes[Lat], ex concesso[Lat]; of course, unquestionably, assuredly, no doubt, doubtless; naturally, natch.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Do not confound yourself by considering the whole of life, and by dwelling upon the multitude and greatness of the pains and troubles to which you may probably be exposed.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

[42-2] entonces un cuadro tan sublime como espantoso.—Varias mujeres, sentadas en el suelo, sostenían en sus faldas y en sus brazos al expirante patriota, siendo las primeras en colmarlo de caricias y bendiciones, como antes fueron las primeras en 15 pedir su muerte.—Los hombres
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

In this case your belief consists of a sensation and an image suitable related.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"I done thought dat would cotch yo', Boomerang," chuckled Eradicate.
— from Tom Swift and His Wireless Message; Or, The Castaways of Earthquake Island by Victor Appleton

"I wanted so much to congratulate you; but congratulations would have been an old story even at that time."
— from Katrine: A Novel by Elinor Macartney Lane

Could you but conceive how cruel I am one Moment in my Resentment, and at the ensuing Minute, when I place him in the Condition my Anger would bring him to, how compassionate; it would give you some Notion how miserable I am, and how little I deserve it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

"The matter does not concern you, baron," cried Grieben, angrily.
— from Problematic Characters: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

CHAPTER X. April, capricious, yet beautiful child of Spring, once more smiled upon the bleak shores and sterile plains which, when we last beheld them, were encompassed by the chilling atmosphere, and loomed bleak and desolate beneath the sombre sky of, to that land at least, unpropitious winter.
— from Woman As She Should Be; Or, Agnes Wiltshire by Mary E. Herbert

28,409: Chinchon, count de, D. Diego de Cabrera, &c. r. “D. Diego Fernandez de Cabrera y Bovadilla.” ” ” ” Consejo Real, presidente de, add “[Don Diego de Espinosa y Arevalo]” P. 566. ” ” Medina de Rioseco, duquesa de, D a .
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

"They have huge green eyes, and they would eat you up like a bit of celery, you beautiful creature!" "Come, come!
— from Stephen Archer, and Other Tales by George MacDonald

The duchess, encouraged by these signs of sympathy, continued,— "Your brother Clarence, Prince Richard, despises us, to cringe to the proud earl.
— from The Last of the Barons — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron