Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But either my youth disarmed him, or perhaps his own sense of justice.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

"Gentlemen," replied Candide, with a most engaging modesty, "you do me great honour, but I have not wherewithal to pay my share."
— from Candide by Voltaire

Montó a caballo breve instante sobre el muro, y después desapareció entre 213 la negra espesura de los árboles.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

20 Hay allí un aduar de pastores y labriegos árabes, llamado «Medik», compuesto de algunas chozas, de un morabito o ermita mahometana, y de un pozo de agua potable, con su brocal de piedra
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

En mine you, de real pint is down furder—it’s down deeper.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Every measure, yet devised and executed, having for its object the suppression [369] of anti-slavery, has been as idle and fruitless as pouring oil to extinguish fire.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

With every minute you do change a mind, And call him noble that was now your hate, Him vile that was your garland.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

Magua caught the expression, and raising his arm, he shook it at the captive, the light silver ornaments attached to his bracelet rattling with the trembling agitation of the limb, as, in a tone of vengeance, he exclaimed, in English: “Mohican, you die!”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

And he knew that enmity, mysterious yet definite, might arise even between Hermione and him; that even they two—inexorably under the law that has made all human beings separate entities, and incapable of perfect fusion—might be victims of misunderstanding, of ignorance of the absolute truth of personality.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

sez I, gittin up in a exsited manner, "yu don't say so!
— from The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 1: Essays, Sketches, and Letters by Artemus Ward

Be ye so, that ye shall neither fail nor falter on account of these tragedies in the Holy Land; let not these dread events make you despondent.
— from Selections from the Writings of `Abdu'l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá

If that is not enough, make your demands and I will consider them."
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Essipoff, my young daughter, the associate editor of a druggist' paper in Detroit, and myself; the first a great virtuoso, the second a schoolgirl, the third a writer on a trade paper, the fourth a music critic—what a leveller of distinctions, what a universal musical provider the pianola is!
— from The Pianolist: A Guide for Pianola Players by Gustav Kobbé