we must renounce for ever seeing our country, our friends, our relations again?" "Yes, sir.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

The Duke of Buckingham—[George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, assassinated when preparing to succour Rochelle.]—and the Earl of Holland (an English lord, of the family of Rich, and younger son of the Earl of Warwick, then ambassador in France) kept her to themselves; M. de Chateauneuf continued the amusement, till at last she abandoned herself to the pleasing of a person whom she loved, without any choice, but purely because it was impossible for her to live without being in love with somebody.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Give me a few old rags, and you shall be no longer burdened with my presence."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXV, June, 1852 by Various

"I am an American citizen, and I have come by this information not as the friend of Russia, as you seem to suspect, but as her enemy, or rather as the enemy of her ruler.
— from The Angel of the Revolution: A Tale of the Coming Terror by George Chetwynd Griffith

'The Polonias have intermarried with the greatest and most ancient families of Rome, and you see their heraldic cognizance (a mushroom or on an azure field) quartered in a hundred places in the city with the arms of the Colonnas and Dorias.
— from The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray

Give me a few old rags, and you shall be no longer burdened with my presence.'
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 430 Volume 17, New Series, March 27, 1852 by Various

With his equals, since he did not drink, he had little reason for social intercourse; but he was extremely fond of recruits and young soldiers: he always protected them, read them their lessons, and often helped them.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf