Then was the king wonderly wroth, more than he was to-forehand, and said unto King Uriens, My sister, your wife, is alway about to betray me, and well I wot either ye, or my nephew, your son, is of counsel with her to have me destroyed; but as for you, said the king to King Uriens, I deem not greatly that ye be of her counsel, for Accolon confessed to me by his own mouth, that she would have destroyed you as well as me, therefore I hold you excused; but as for your son, Sir Uwaine, I hold him suspect, therefore I charge you put him out of my court.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir
Had you not been educated in this establishment, we should merely have looked upon your affair with mademoiselle Camp as a scene too distressing for humanity and it would have been buried in our peaceful walls beneath the veil of modesty and silence; but we owe it to the youth sent to us by his majesty, for the inculcation of those principles which become the soldier as the man, not to pass over the present opportunity of inspiring them with a just horror of your misguided conduct, as well as feeling it an imperative duty to ourselves not to appear indifferent to the scandal and disgraceful confusion your proceedings have occasioned in the capital.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de
General Merchandise, could you put him on your Police Force?"
— from Billy Bounce by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow
“Charge your pikes,” he ordered.
— from The Lady of Loyalty House: A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
"How can you pass him off," objected Quorn.
— from A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William, Sir
I heard somebody mention once that he went up to see his Rabbi Silverman who I am certain you probably heard of I guess, and I don’t know if he had two or three dogs with him or what it was.
— from Warren Commission (14 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIV (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission
When the husband returns, and finds you under suspicious circumstances, you pitch him out of the window.
— from Through Night to Light: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen
"So I pray you, do not desert me in case your present hope of good fortune fails you, but let me know at any time, and I will go to you, and will go with you wherever you will take me.
— from The Touchstone of Fortune Being the Memoir of Baron Clyde, Who Lived, Thrived, and Fell in the Doleful Reign of the So-called Merry Monarch, Charles II by Charles Major
"In the first place," said the king, "in what way can you possibly have offended me?
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas
As you walk down the street of a great city you pass hundreds of faces, all of them strange.
— from How to Use Your Mind A Psychology of Study: Being a Manual for the Use of Students and Teachers in the Administration of Supervised Study by Harry Dexter Kitson
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