If you do, I must go and call your brother.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

You are to know this my Ancestor was not only of a military Genius, but fit also for the Arts of Peace, for he played on the Base-Viol as well as any Gentlemen at Court; you see where his Viol hangs by his Basket-hilt Sword.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

In short, without self-love, instead of beautiful, you shall think yourself an old beldam of fourscore; instead of youthful, you shall seem just dropping into the grave; instead of eloquent, a mere stammerer; and in lieu of gende and complaisant, you shall appear like a downright country clown; it being so necessary that every one should think well of himself before he can expect the good opinion of others.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

“These Jennies have glass and china, you see.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

You have got a city, you have got triremes, you have got money, you have got men; to-day, if you only chose, you can do us a good turn, and we will make you a great man."
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

“Therefore, go and collect your fifty men and hold yourself in readiness.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Good-bye, my love; try to be a good girl, and curb your wild spirits.
— from A World of Girls: The Story of a School by L. T. Meade

"Then if you've got any chuck you want to warm up you can sling it in my fryin'-pan."
— from Under Handicap A Novel by Jackson Gregory

Every year that I have been at the Morrises', something pleasant has happened to me, but I cannot put all these things down, nor can I tell how Miss Laura and the boys grew and changed, year by year, till now they are quite grown up.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders

"But you, mamma, were a woman when you married, old enough and wise enough to guide and control yourself."
— from Elsie's New Relations What They Did and How They Fared at Ion; A Sequel to Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

If it were necessary to give a categorical "Yes" or "No" to these questions, the answer would be "No."
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O my people; and I will bring you into the land of Israel....
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 9 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

GUIDO At court you are the master.
— from The Jewel Merchants: A Comedy in One Act by James Branch Cabell

And so, when he came nosing under the very tree where I was sitting, I suddenly jumped up, threw my hat at him, and gave a Comanche yell.
— from Woodcraft and Camping by George Washington Sears