My girl I appoint with you an appointment, and I charge you that you make preparation to be worthy to meet me, And I charge you that you be patient and perfect till I come.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

But, O, poor souls, Come you to seek the lamb here of the fox, Good night to your redress!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A close examination of such a definite inference will convince you that it is due to the pathetic fallacy, i.e., you have so inferred because you would have done so, thought and desired so, under similar circumstances.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

He does not fully understand what you mean, but he will remember every word; and it will be strange if he does not cause you to blush by the repetition.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

'You'd better think about catching your train.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Can you tell me exactly how much she spent?" "Of course, it is no business of mine," said Mrs. Sunniborne; "but a lady who could pay such prices must be somewhat inexperienced in domestic economy."
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

But if the currents carry ye to those sweet Antilles where the beaches are only beat with water-lilies, will ye do one little errand for me?
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

There is nothing so common as to find a Man whom in the general Observations of his Carriage you take to be of an uniform Temper, subject to such unaccountable Starts of Humour and Passion, that he is as much unlike himself and differs as much from the Man you at first thought him, as any two distinct Persons can differ from each other.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

And can you tell me any of the names and addresses?” Annie considered.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

I, the man who enfolds you and holds you close, How my soul cleaves to your bosom as I clasp you, The very quick of my being!
— from Look! We Have Come Through! by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

“Indeed?” cried Mr Gosport, again perceiving her change of countenance; “and is it possible you have actually escaped a siege, while every body concluded you taken by assault?
— from Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 2 by Fanny Burney

By and by came one of these tyrants servants the most sturdiest of the rest to helpe his master, who at the first comming tooke up a stone and threw at the third brother, but by reason the stone ran along his arme it did not hurt him, which chanced otherwise then all mens expectation was: by and by the young man feigning that his arme was greatly wounded, spake these words unto the cruell bloud sucker: Now maist thou, thou wretch, triumph upon the destruction of all our family, now hast thou fed thy insatiable cruelty with the bloud of three brethren, now maist thou rejoyce at the fall of us Citizens, yet thinke not but that how farre thou dost remove and extend the bounds of thy land, thou shalt have some neighbor, but how greatly am I sorry in that I have lost mine arme wherewithall I minded to cut off thy head.
— from The Golden Asse by Apuleius

"Well, can you tell me if this is worth anything?"
— from Dead Man's Rock by Arthur Quiller-Couch

The polite old woman turned towards the Prince, and said:— "You see that I cannot direct you on your way; but go, from me, to my sister, who is Queen of the Birds; perhaps she will know better than I. Mount on the back of this wolf, he will carry you to her."
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 07, Issue 38, February, 1894 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

"Can you tell me where he is now?" "No, I cannot."
— from The Rover Boys on a Tour; or, Last Days at Brill College by Edward Stratemeyer

Can you tell me the name of the person who makes this serious charge against you?"
— from Cassell's Book of In-door Amusements, Card Games, and Fireside Fun by Various

You shall be careless, and leave them about; I'll find them, and bluster, and say, 'I command you to do so and so, Bella Bassett'—the very thing on the card, you know.”
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade