He does speak Out of mere envy, 'cause the servant's made The thing he gaped for: please your fatherhoods, This is the truth, though I'll not justify The other, but he may be some-deal faulty. VOLT: Ay, to your hopes, as well as mine, Corvino:
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Kim Yu said, “I got it from Prince Yi Hang-bok.”
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

A TRIFLING OCCURRENCE Nicolai Ilyich Byelyaev, a Petersburg landlord, very fond of the racecourse, a well fed, pink young man of about thirty-two, once called towards evening on Madame Irnin—Olga Ivanovna—with whom he had a liaison, or, to use his own phrase, spun out a long and tedious romance.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Within the next week, you should call upon your hostess, if it is the first party you have attended at her house.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

In the first place, you've known me from a child and you've a great many qualities I haven't.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sir Thomas Roo, merchant-taylor, mayor 1568, gave to the merchant-taylors lands or tenements, out of them to be given to ten poor men, cloth-workers, carpenters, tilers, plasterers, and armourers, forty pounds yearly, namely, four pounds to each, also one hundred pounds to be lent to eight poor men; besides he enclosed with a wall of brick nigh one acre of ground, pertaining to the hospital of Bethlem, to be a burial for the dead.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

In the first place, you could obtain possession of all the treasures hidden under ground in the States of the Church.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

For perhaps you would consent to this award.
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

I confess that I was wrong to further provoke you when I saw you in passion.
— from Peggy Owen at Yorktown by Lucy Foster Madison

We know you leave no family behind—oh, yes, we know quite a lot about you, Martin Blake, we had to look you up—and I think you will be blessing us in a day or two for prying you out of your rut.
— from Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer

Flowers pale yellow, in corymb-like clusters; pods erect and somewhat appressed Winter Cress, Barbarea stricta. 29a.
— from The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Henry A. (Henry Allan) Gleason

“In the first place, you don’t know my wife.”
— from Le Cocu (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVIII) by Paul de Kock

O, Master Renard, Master Renard, If you have falsely painted your fine Prince; Praised, where you should have blamed him, I pray God No woman ever love you, Master Renard.
— from Queen Mary; and, Harold by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“For perhaps you are afraid of the noise disturbing Sir Ulick?” said be.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

They frighten people, you know, looking wise, and making you put out your tongue, and all."
— from Coquette by Frank Swinnerton

In the first place, you forget what a cloud you are under.
— from Dariel: A Romance of Surrey by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Holding the office of "jester" at the Court of the people, he exclaimed, with an insipid expression and the smirk of trite politeness which the old bringing-up set on every face: "People, you must cut off two hundred and seventy thousand heads!"
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 2 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 2 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de