"Now I must beg you not to say that again," said Big Claus; "for if you do, I shall hit your horse on the head, so that he will drop dead on the spot, and there will be an end of him.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

This the finest air drinking, With nostrils out-swelled like goblets, Lacking future, lacking remembrances Thus do I sit here, ye Friendly damsels dearly loved, And look at the palm-tree there, How it, to a dance-girl, like, Doth bow and bend and on its haunches bob, —One doth it too, when one view’th it long!— To a dance-girl like, who as it seem’th to me, Too long, and dangerously persistent, Always, always, just on SINGLE leg hath stood? —Then forgot she thereby, as it seem’th to me, The OTHER leg?
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

He had the good sense and the good taste not to permit his predilection for sports to degenerate into slang; he yielded himself to the delicate and profitable authority of woman, and, as ever happens, it softened his manners and brightened his wit.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He's a sharp lad, but for all that Paul Davies 'ill sweat him yet.”
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

The burnt district is still hideously yawning in the heart of the town, a monument to the sternness of those bold revolutionists who are being hunted to their last quarry.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

Now , who's going to drag in Sherlock Holmes?" "You don't really think—?"
— from Love Among the Chickens by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Some day I shall hear your voice again, and then-” The paper dropped from the reader’s hand.
— from Initials Only by Anna Katharine Green

I have often met him, and he has talked to me about his own sisters, and one day I showed him your photograph, and he said what a pretty girl you were.
— from A Girl in Ten Thousand by L. T. Meade

“And stay at home and do it,” said he; “you’re wise.”
— from The Celebrity at Home by Violet Hunt

I doubt if she has yet realized this in her own mind; but I see the result, although she is not conscious of it herself.
— from No Name by Wilkie Collins

To-morrow, at early daybreak, I shall have your baggage forwarded to you, together with an escort, charged to accompany you as far as the frontiers of Armorica.
— from The Carlovingian Coins; Or, The Daughters of Charlemagne A Tale of the Ninth Century by Eugène Sue

"I doubt it, nor, under the circumstances, do I see how you could be."
— from Violet Forster's Lover by Richard Marsh

"You will do nothing of the kind," she returned decidedly; "I shall have you falling ill on my hands.
— from Herb of Grace by Rosa Nouchette Carey