‘I will, however,’ continued Madame Mantalini, drying her eyes, and speaking with great indignation, ‘say before you, and before everybody here, for the first time, and once for all, that I never will supply that man’s extravagances and viciousness again.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

As far as right goes they think one has as much of it as the other, and that if any maintain their independence it is because they are strong, and that if we do not molest them it is because we are afraid; so that besides extending our empire we should gain in security by your subjection; the fact that you are islanders and weaker than others rendering it all the more important that you should not succeed in baffling the masters of the sea.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

“It’s natur, Chloe, and natur ’s strong,” said Tom, “but the Lord’s grace is stronger; besides, you oughter think what an awful state a poor crittur’s soul ’s in that’ll do them ar things,—you oughter thank God that you an’t like him, Chloe.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

All their own activities are instincts of the body for its growth in strength; but you should regard with suspicion those wishes which they cannot carry out for themselves, those which others must carry out for them.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Not a waste, or needless sound Till we com to holier ground, I shall be your faithfull guide Through this gloomy covert wide, And not many furlongs thence Is your Fathers residence, Where this night are met in state Many a friend to gratulate His wish't presence, and beside 950 All the Swains that there abide, With Jiggs, and rural dance resort, We shall catch them at their sport, And our sudden coming there Will double all their mirth and chere; Com let us haste, the Stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

it is for thee and thy worshippers that Hell is prepared, but by the mercy of God I shall bury your work with shame and ignominy.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

so generous it shall be you!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The Jews of Moscow were forced to pour out their hearts before God in some back yards, in the stuffy atmosphere of private dwellings.
— from History of the Jews in Russia and Poland, Volume 2 [of 3] From the Death of Alexander I until the Death of Alexander III (1825-1894) by Simon Dubnow

You’d say it yourself, Thady Gallagher if so be you’d heard the way he was talking.
— from General John Regan by George A. Birmingham

"You will stay, and do better than ever, for if you attempt to go, I shall bring you back."
— from The Morgesons: A Novel by Elizabeth Stoddard

"Ay, ay, my girl; I said before, you had a brain in your head and a head on your shoulders.
— from How It All Came Round by L. T. Meade

'I should have guessed it, sir, by your gentleness in coming to visit me here.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett

'Ladies and gentlemen,' I shall begin, 'you have done your best to make palatable the class of human beings to which you belong, but you have utterly failed, and you must go!
— from Polly Oliver's Problem by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Behind you rise Arlington Heights, which are disliked by our excellent National Democratic Organization, only because they wear a covering of Lincoln green in summer; before you, and across the Potomac is the Capitol of our distracted country, looking like an ambitious marble-yard on its way out of town; and close beside you is one of our national troops extracting certain wonders of the insect kingdom from a Government biscuit.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 3 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell