From one you love especially, however greatly you may have been in fault.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Albert Gregory," said the merchant, "I occupied the seat in the car in front of you last evening.
— from Tiger and Tom and Other Stories for Boys by Various

Might I hazard an opinion, but few of your leaders ever intended to engage in hostilities, but they may have rendered inevitable what they intended for intimidation.
— from Novanglus, and Massachusettensis or, Political Essays, Published in the Years 1774 and 1775, on the Principal Points of Controversy, between Great Britain and Her Colonies by Daniel Leonard

You've made a fool of yourself long enough.
— from The Short Line War by Samuel Merwin

With the increasing clamour of appalling conflict on deck, this excitement grew at every moment stronger, until it finally became irrepressible, so that at length, when through the cabin windows there suddenly streamed a flood of yellow light, extinguishing that of the lamp that threw its flickering beams around the cabin, she flung herself impetuously from the berth, and, despite of the aged and trembling female who attempted to detain her, burst open the narrow entrance to the cabin, and rushed up the steps communicating with the deck.
— from Wacousta : a tale of the Pontiac conspiracy — Volume 3 by Major (John) Richardson

What a different life would be in front of your little Elly if she had Negro blood!"
— from The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

"Your hat had fallen over your left eye.
— from Brothers: The True History of a Fight Against Odds by Horace Annesley Vachell

“God is nearer to you than any thought or feeling of yours, Lady Emily.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

Do you recollect where you got your knob scuttled off Beyrout—how you fell on your latter end and tried to recollect your church cateckis, you old brute?—I's ashamed of you.
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest