“You can go, Dunyasha, I’ll call you presently,” said Kitty.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

‘You have almost completed your painting,’ said I, approaching to observe it more closely, and surveying it with a greater degree of admiration and delight than I cared to express.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

In the opinion, not of bad men, but of the best men, no belief which is contrary to truth can be really useful: and can you prevent such men
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

And upon what ground could you procure such a thing to be done?—a vagrant, is he?
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

El Sultán, enterado de las aventuras, rió con todos los cortesanos, y para satisfacer a Tamburí ordenó que en la plaza pública fueran quemados los zapatos.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

With good reason then neither ox nor horse nor any other brute animal do we call happy, for none of them can partake in such working: and for this same reason a child is not happy either, because by reason of his tender age he cannot yet perform such actions: if the term is applied, it is by way of anticipation.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

[Enter Cassio and some Musicians.] CASSIO Masters, play here,—I will content your pains, Something that's brief; and bid "Good-morrow, general."
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

; yo no sé quién le ha dicho que usted hace alarde de 25 ateísmo en todas partes; que se burla de las cosas y personas sagradas, y aun que proyecta derribar la catedral para edificar con sus piedras una gran fábrica de alquitrán.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

"If, to your sacred laws obedient ever "My sword, my soul, have own'd no other guide, "Oh! if your honour, if the rights of men, "My country's happiness, my king's renown, "Were motives worthy of a warrior's zeal, "Crown your poor servant with success this day: "And be the praise and glory all thy own." INVOCATION TO PARADISE LOST.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

Ch., Y. P. S. C. E., Lincoln Mem.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 50, No. 05, May, 1896 by Various

Masters, play heere, I wil content your paines, Something that's briefe: and bid, goodmorrow General Clo.
— from Othello by William Shakespeare

That life and love can continue to exist beneath bleak foreign skies, when grim Poverty howls wolf-like at the door, and the winds of seemingly year-long winters are scarcely less fierce, was the proposition these courageous young people set themselves to prove.
— from An Algonquin Maiden: A Romance of the Early Days of Upper Canada by G. Mercer (Graeme Mercer) Adam

“Are you going to repeat the comedy you played so well this afternoon, and make love to me again?”
— from The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

He alludes to the wild men that cleared the way, and their fireworks, in these words: "I am not afeard of your green Robin Hoods, that fright with fiery club your pitiful spectators, that take pains to be stifled, and adore the wolves and camels of your company."
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

You conduct your place so that every stranger, seeing the city and the sights, when he gets before this building, realizes at one glance that Negroes occupy it.'"
— from The Forged Note: A Romance of the Darker Races by Oscar Micheaux

In my lodging youre highnesse shall rule and commaund as you do héere in Court, your person shall bée well vsed, wherefore take you no care, for I will haue respecte vnto youre honor, as to myne owne proper, or the honor of my Kyng, beséeching you to pardon me in this my request, for if I shoulde doe otherwise, and dissemble with you, mine own company would be offended with me, saying that I doe not defende them, according to duetie.
— from The pleasant historie of the conquest of the VVeast India, now called new Spayne atchieued by the vvorthy Prince Hernando Cortes, marques of the Valley of Huaxacac, most delectable to reade by Francisco López de Gómara