(For you conducted the campaign under the open skies, and that though there was a city of some importance near at hand, and moreover you encouraged your men to work hard and to take risks, not merely by giving orders, but by your own personal example.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

“'Cause,” as he explained, “you're a new boy, and they'll play you some trick and get our butter; but you can toast just as well as I.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

I get on better, because you are teaching me, of course.
— from The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins

"I'm generally out before breakfast, you know, with Patsy.
— from A Young Man's Year by Anthony Hope

I dont know did this get over, but believe you me
— from Believe You Me! by Nina Wilcox Putnam

It is even asserted that he reproached the marshal with a restless disposition, an anxiety to appropriate to himself all the commands; less, indeed, from ambition than zeal, and that all might go on better; but yet this zeal had its inconveniences.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

Go, and the god of battles be your guide and guard!
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 2 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

It seems the most natural thing in the world to be sitting with your glass of beer before you, while some rising poet, whose name ten years later may figure among the “Immortal Forty,” tells to you his loves and his ambition, or brings tears into your eyes with a description of some humble hero or martyr.
— from The Ways of Men by Eliot Gregory

No! Don't do that but, "Let the laws of your own land, Good or bad, between you stand."
— from The Measure of a Man by Amelia E. Barr

'Nothing human is beyond my comprehension, good or bad, but you cannot make a monk of me, still less a saint—a Saint Louis of Gonzaga, who was too modest to look his own mother in the face!'
— from The White Sister by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Look, sir, I chose you to approach in this matter not only because you were rich and influential with government officials, but because you had an unusual reputation, for these days, of daring to break with tradition.
— from Youth by Isaac Asimov

The odds are about one hundred to one against you that, when seated in your carriage, the postillion in his saddle and the fat courier outside, the words en route being given, you arrive at your destination that evening, without any accident or adventure whatever of more consequence than a lost shoe from the near leader, a snapped spring, or a heartburn from the glass of bad brandy you took at the third stage.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever