As soon as the Pope saw me, he said,— “The Venetian ambassador has informed us that if you wish to return to your native land, you must go and present yourself before the secretary of the Tribunal.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I retain you in the number of my festival guests, and promise you that we shall not want for mirth and good cheer enough, yea, over and above the ordinary rate.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Then shall ye, said Sir Launcelot, on Whitsunday next coming go unto the court of King Arthur, and there shall ye yield you unto Queen Guenever, and put you all three in her grace and mercy, and say that Sir Kay sent you thither to be her prisoners.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

But then, because Lysias, the general of the army, and Antiochus the king, were informed that Philip was coming upon them out of Persia, and was endeavoring to get the management of public affairs to himself, they came into these sentiments, to leave the siege, and to make haste to go against Philip; yet did they resolve not to let this be known to the soldiers or to the officers: but the king commanded Lysias to speak openly to the soldiers and the officers, without saying a word about the business of Philip; and to intimate to them that the siege would be very long; that the place was very strong; that they were already in want of provisions; that many affairs of the kingdom wanted regulation; and that it was much better to make a league with the besieged, and to become friends to their whole nation, by permitting them to observe the laws of their fathers, while they broke out into this war only because they were deprived of them, and so to depart home.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Los aplausos vinieron entusiásticos, y él aprovechó el instante para sincerarse de las sabidas acusaciones, y como ya tenía ganado al público, y como pronunció en aquella ocasión uno de los más hermosos discursos de su vida, el éxito fué completo y aquel auditorio, antes hostil, le aclamó vibrante y prolongadamente.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

The world might have been challenged to produce another baby who had such a store of pleasant nonsense said and sung to it, as Bella said and sung to this baby; or who was dressed and undressed as often in four-and-twenty hours as Bella dressed and undressed this baby; or who was held behind doors and poked out to stop its father's way when he came home, as this baby was; or, in a word, who did half the number of baby things, through the lively invention of a gay and proud young mother, that this inexhaustible baby did.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

My blessed love, my great Victor, my sublime beloved, I kiss in spirit your noble forehead with its generous thoughts, your beautiful eyes so gentle and powerful, your fascinating mouth, which has the happiness of speaking all your divine thoughts.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

"If you want to know him, go and present yourself.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

"All right, only don't go and put your great, noodlish heart into it, Mol!
— from The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London by Margaret Westrup

I shall strew fine grass, and place you bodily upon a carved sacrificial dish.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

This contains less cobalt blue, but employes the colors of the Limoges workers, introducing, however, a great deal of turquoise and much more green and pale yellow than the French enamelers used.
— from The Pleasures of Collecting by Gardner C. Teall

36 Then cometh Jesus with them unto a place called Gethsemane, and saith unto the disciples, Sit ye here, while I go and pray yonder.
— from An Examination of the Testimony of the Four Evangelists, by the Rules of Evidence Administered in Courts of Justice With an Account of the Trial of Jesus by Simon Greenleaf

Wait till I’m gone—I only want to see one person before I go, and perhaps you will tell me how long I shall have to wait.’
— from Neæra: A Tale of Ancient Rome by Graham, John W. (John William), active 1886-1887

Curse my liver, if any man—I mean, that is, if any gentleman, was to arrest me, I would as surely cut his throat as—" "How, sir!" said the doctor, "would you compensate one breach of the law by a much greater, and pay your debts by committing murder?"
— from Amelia — Volume 3 by Henry Fielding

"Nay, not so," Made answer clear‑eyed Reason, "Do you go And put your resolution to the test.
— from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox