And does it strike you that it would be just and right if the El Toboso people, finding out that you were here with the intention of going to tamper with their princesses and trouble their ladies, were to come and cudgel your ribs, and not leave a whole bone in you?
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Continue your revolutionary attitude; never mind the amnesty pronounced with the acceptance of the absurd constitution of 1791; it is a crime which cannot extenuate other crimes.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

“Ah! monsieur,” interrupted the dancing-master, “but you see de grand inconvenience of concealing your rank and name.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

“I appeal to you, since you heard me, and there's no one here but ourselves do you consider young Randal a nice person to know?”
— from Rose in Bloom A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" by Louisa May Alcott

Chingatok, your relations are not to be taken by surprise,” said the Captain—or something to that effect—in Eskimo.
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

"Can you really?" asked Nessa.
— from Castle Blair: A Story of Youthful Days by Flora L. (Flora Louisa) Shaw