"Yes, and you'll ask his kind permission to take off your jumpers so's he can cut your throats easier," sneered Skelt.
— from Captain Calamity Second Edition by Rolf Bennett

"Of course you take Edwin's side."
— from These Twain by Arnold Bennett

To thee I give my crown: yes, thou, Euphrasia; Shalt reign in Sicily.
— from The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy

At six o'clock the tables were already crowded, yet the excursionists still hurried in, looking for vacant corners; and the waiters continued bringing in more chairs and forms, putting the plates closer and closer together and crowding the people up.
— from The Ladies' Paradise by Émile Zola

Well come hither; take off my doublet, For look ye Surgeon, I must have ye cut My Heart out here, and handsomly: Nay, stare not, Nor do not start; I'll cut your throat else, Surgeon, Come swear to do it.
— from The Mad Lover, a Tragi-Comedy The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (3 of 10) by John Fletcher

No hoss could carry you there, except Satan, and you couldn't ride him.
— from The Seventh Man by Max Brand

Change your trade ever so often, you'll be found out for what you are at last.'
— from The Parent's Assistant; Or, Stories for Children by Maria Edgeworth

“London,” said his lordship to her of the diamonds, “has not seemed like the same place since Lady Westborough arrived; your presence brings out all the other luminaries: and therefore a young acquaintance of mine—God bless me, there he is, seated by Lady Flora—very justly called you the ‘evening star.’
— from The Disowned — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

No, no, Herr von Blanden, you must not withdraw yourself from society, you cannot condemn yourself to everlasting solitude; too many wistful glances, that would be glad to share it, follow you."
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. II. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall