While they were going along to take boat, 'Don't you wish, my dear,' said R. W., timidly, 'that your mother was here?' 'No, I don't, Pa, for I like to have you all to myself to-day.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

However, old friend, I like to hear you talk of bygone days, and here’s a five shilling piece.
— from Foxholme Hall, and Other Tales by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Good to myself, dear child, quite as much as to you; for I love to have you all about me."
— from Elsie's Vacation and After Events by Martha Finley

Vengeance was roused from its lair; the hardy yeomanry left their ploughs in the furrow; the merchant forsook his counting-house; the professional man his office; the minister his pulpit; and with powder-horn and slug, shouldered their rusty muskets, hastened to the scene of action determined to avenge their injured rights, defend their bleeding country, or perish in the attempt.
— from A Biography of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, and of Washington and Patrick Henry With an appendix, containing the Constitution of the United States, and other documents by L. Carroll (Levi Carroll) Judson

"Jean, my friend, I like to hear you say that.
— from Jean Baptiste: A Story of French Canada by James Edward Le Rossignol

"Faith," said that hopeful old female, "I luvs to hear young couples planning for the future."
— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre

Speak slowly, for I love to hear you.
— from The Forfeiture by Charles Rivière Dufresny

Let her walk with us, and we will go home, and you will tell her, Ama, for I love to hear you talk."
— from A Little Pilgrim in the Unseen by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Tears had sprung to her eyes unbidden, and it was in rather an uncertain voice that she said, still managing to conceal her face, "I like to hear you talk of those places, but—but I will never leave Borva."
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various