What do you say? Let us have no young lady’s affectations and caprices, but speak out at once.’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

I am deaf; yet so loud have many spoken out, that I can perceive that all men, both great and small, take it ill that you have not kept your promise to the king of Norway; and, worse than that, that you broke the decision of the community as it was delivered at Upsala Thing.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Verily, I divine you well, my disciples: ye strive like me for the bestowing virtue.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Better not conjecture, thought Mrs. Fisher; and her eyes, though cast down, yet saw Lady Caroline stretch out her hand to the Chianti flask and fill her glass again.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

This very day you shall leave my house without a pice in your pocket.”
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

And you pull them up —to decorate your stagnant little minds—and think that makes you—And because you have pulled that word from the life that grew it you won't let one who's honest, and aware, and troubled, try to reach through to—to what she doesn't know is there, ( she is moved, excited, as if a cruel thing has been done )
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

I married, too, and though my wife died young, she left me my dear little Alice.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Oh, yes; I did not want to disturb you,” said Lidia Ivanovna, gazing tenderly at him; “sit here with us.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Where did you stay last night?"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Did you subsequently learn?
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

[102] Children, do you so long for , and pant after God, the living God? etc., etc.
— from The Sabbath-School Index Pointing out the history and progress of Sunday-schools, with approved modes of instruction. by R. G. (Richard Gay) Pardee

"'My dear Caxton,' said he, tremulously, 'I own that I once wished this—wished it from the hour I knew you; but why did you so long—I never suspected that—nor I am sure did Ellinor.'
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 64 No. 396 October 1848 by Various

And do you speak like that to a man who can pay eighty-five pounds a year of rent?"
— from Macleod of Dare by William Black

"Do you suppose, Lawson," said Mr. Rogers, straightening up and speaking very impatiently, "that the public will swallow any statement of that kind?
— from Frenzied Finance, Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Thomas William Lawson

"This is it," she said, selecting one, and coming back and reading. (Do you see, let me ask in a hurried parenthesis,—how the tone of this household might easily have been a different one, and pervaded differently its auxiliary department?
— from The Other Girls by A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train) Whitney

And all the gorgeous tints of Tyre In varying shades are mingled there; And every hue the sun’s bright fire Can kindle in the showery air,— [ Pg 404] When the wide rainbow spans the sky; The bow whose colours, in the end So different, yet so like when nigh, In harmony’s own concord blend,— And precious threads of glittering gold Enrich the growing web.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

And if they continue to refuse to come down, you shall leave them, and shall return, without permitting their houses to be burned or their palm trees to be cut down.
— from The History of Sulu by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby