As soon as we were out of the coach, I whispered to the doctor— “If you please, uncle, I want to piddle very bad.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

BRABANTIO So did I yours.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

She says you are doing in your way what the great teachers and preachers behind you did in theirs.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

But you'd say it was little only I did this day if you'd seen me a while since striking my one single blow.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

"If you couldn't do it yourself, or you didn't want to, you could have written to me....
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At the same time my conscience will not allow me to—. Please alter the figures I named to thirty thousand dollars, if you will, and let the proposition go to the company—I will stick to it if it breaks my heart!”
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Will you not also try to let the psychoanalytic conception develop in your mind beside the popular or "psychiatric"?
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Well, I delight in your bad qualities.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

"I am too deeply in your debt, Monsieur Bulmer, to think of marrying you."
— from Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

It is an interesting experiment, in making this trip, to pick out some point on the top of the ridge, say the High Pinnacle, easily distinguished as the highest point in view from Henry’s; fix its direction in your mind, and then, at intervals, as you round the curves of the ascent, try to find it among the hundred peaks in view.
— from The Heart of the Alleghanies; or, Western North Carolina by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler

It is an advantage to make such discovery in youth.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

Pears and yellow peaches are good dipped in yellow fondant flavored with lemon or orange.
— from Candy-Making at Home Two hundred ways to make candy with home flavors and professional finish by Mary M.‏ (Mary Mason) Wright

You dive in your hand whenever you feel the least bit inclined for a sweetie, Agnes; and you do the same, Mary Davies; and, Mary, you might pass one on now and then to that poor, little, thin Katie Trafford at the other end of the class."
— from Wild Kitty by L. T. Meade

“Mr. Durand, would you know this diamond if you saw it?”
— from The Woman in the Alcove by Anna Katharine Green

“Double your fare, whatever it is,” he said to the driver, “if you keep the cab before you in view, and follow it wherever it goes.”
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

“It is quite impossible for me to tell, even to imagine, what I might have done if you—well, if you had not come over again.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

If, here, the picture is too boldly drawn, if you find it tedious in places, do not blame the description, which is, indeed, part and parcel of my story; for the appearance of the rooms inhabited by his two neighbors had a great influence on the feelings and hopes of Hippolyte Schinner.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac