If you don't give it me, /parbleu/, you shall not have the packet."
— from Devereux — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

To that end, gentlemen, I must put you to the inconvenience of a prolonged sea-voyage.
— from The Wild Geese by Stanley John Weyman

I must see you before you go, I must prepare you for your meeting with Lady Adeline Seymour."
— from The Exclusives (vol. 2 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

But although the analogy between the motions of the shadow of a small cloud and of the moon in a solar eclipse holds good in many particulars, yet the velocity of the lunar shadow is far greater than that of the cloud, being no less than two thousand two hundred and eighty miles per hour.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

“Skinner, it was your interest to leave me whilst the bank stood; then you would have got a place directly; but since you take umbrage at my dismissing you for your own good, I must punish you—by keeping you.”
— from Hard Cash by Charles Reade

"Sherbrooke," said Bryerly, drawing him a little on one side and speaking low, "I am a rich man, you know: I have got ten guineas in my pocket: you must share them with me."
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

But although I had so tender a feeling towards them that I could freely do them all the good in my power; yet the truth of my cause would not suffer me to conform to their worship, or flinch at their cruelty one jot, though my life was at stake; for many times they threatened to kill me.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles