He has succeeded after all, then, in his design in getting to London, and it was he
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

"Now," quoth he at last, "I am right glad I have met thee, and if I do not rattle thy bones within thy hide this day, I give thee leave to put thy foot upon my neck.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

In a few days I go to lake Huron, and may have something to say of that region and people.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

heah aheah all my compriment on your hotchapotch of your heass as bad as now with the hands hanging off me looking out of the window if there was a nice fellow even in the opposite house that medical in Holles street the nurse was after when I put on my gloves and hat at the window to show I was going out not a notion what I meant arent they thick never understand what you say even youd want to print it up on a big poster for them not even if you shake hands twice with the left he didnt recognise me either when I half frowned at him outside Westland row chapel where does their great intelligence come in Id like to know grey matter they have it all in their tail if you ask me those country gougers up in the City Arms intelligence they had a damn sight less than the bulls and cows they were selling the meat and the coalmans bell that noisy bugger trying to swindle me with the wrong bill he took out of his hat what a pair of paws and pots and pans and kettles to mend any broken bottles for a poor man today and no visitors or post ever except his cheques or some advertisement like that wonderworker they sent him addressed dear Madam only his letter and the card from Milly this morning see she wrote a letter to him who did I get the last letter from O Mrs Dwenn now what possessed her to write from Canada after so many years to know the recipe I had for pisto madrileno Floey Dillon since she wrote to say she was married to a very rich architect if Im to believe all I hear with a villa and eight rooms her father was an awfully nice man he was near seventy always goodhumoured well now Miss Tweedy or Miss Gillespie theres the piannyer that was a solid silver coffee service he had too on the mahogany sideboard then dying so far away I hate people that have always their poor story to tell everybody has their own troubles that poor Nancy Blake died a month ago of acute neumonia
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The next day I got the lottery ticket and took it to the marchioness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I warned him, however, that I should write to the abbess directly I got to London, who was the first person he must go and see at Lisbon, as she would have my address.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Diana is going to lend me a book to read.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“How did it get to London from Lady Verinder’s house?”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

They were twins, born of a virgin who died in giving them life.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I can only tell you how in a few days I grew to love the fair young face, and how Dora Thorne that was her name, Miss Charteris—loved me.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

I kept going down, and the farther down I got the lighter it grew, and more approaching a level.
— from Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey

All you need do is give the light a few fathoms clearance to starboard.
— from Smugglers' Reef: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin

For wealth, power, and luxury in details is generally the lesson Spanish cathedrals teach, but they do not give their lancets and shafts, their vertical lines and pointed arches, the chance to impress the visitor or true believer with those sentiments so peculiar to the great ogival style.
— from The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Their History and Their Architecture; Together with Much of Interest Concerning the Bishops, Rulers and Other Personages Identified with Them by Charles Rudy

“When you are older,” the king counselled him, “you will admire that which is truly admirable, for although the driving is good the lady is better.” He continued with enthusiasm.
— from Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens

Robert loads me with gifts, and the Duke is going to let me wear all the Torquilstone jewels when I am married, besides the emeralds he has given me himself.
— from The Vicissitudes of Evangeline by Elinor Glyn

* "In matters of commerce, the fault of the Dutch Is giving too little and asking too much."
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 29th 1893 by Various