Questionable Camille, how thou glitterest with a fallen, rebellious, yet still semi-celestial light; as is the star-light on the brow of Lucifer!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Being unwilling therefore any way to degenerate from the hereditary mildness and clemency of my parents, I do now forgive you, deliver you from all fines and imprisonments, fully release you, set you at liberty, and every way make you as frank and free as ever you were before.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

“Did I tell you how I first read your story?”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

" "You will excuse me for reminding you, Sir Percival, that if the servants go to-morrow they must have a month's wages in lieu of a month's warning.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Whiles I pick up a few lads to serve the King of France: recruits, ye see; and that’s aye a little money.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

I had so far rather you slept.”
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

First, rehearse your song by rote, To each word a warbling note; Hand in hand, with fairy grace, Will we sing, and bless this place.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I still remained in my berth, fast recovering, yet still not well enough to go safely on deck.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“In that case,” said he, “‘Your bed is on the flinty rock, Your sleep to watch alway;’ and if so, you may dismount and safely reckon upon any quantity of sleeplessness under this roof for a twelvemonth, not to say for a single night.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Your head will be clearer for running your sect, and such respect for your stomach will show more religion than a long beard does."
— from From Boyhood to Manhood: Life of Benjamin Franklin by William Makepeace Thayer

Come, you fortunate rascal, you shall drink to the bride from the bride's half-emptied glass.
— from Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

“Forgive me, Dick, for reproaching you so,” she said.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 15, Nos. 85-90, April 1872-September 1872 A Monthly Magazine by Various

“Sir knight,” the man with shining face replied, “you still have much to bear.
— from Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur by Mary-Lafon, Jean Bernard Lafon, called

With pride he frequently remarked, " yo soy presidente " (I am president).
— from In Indian Mexico (1908) by Frederick Starr

I'd love you if you'd let me—this for reason, You save my life at price of ...
— from The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning Cambridge Edition by Robert Browning

The name you first knew me by was Fisher; I then changed it more than once, for reasons you shall know presently."
— from The Wizard of West Penwith: A Tale of the Land's-End by William Bentinck Forfar