it's no good offering you a little something to keep the cold out.”
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

And then he concluded by saying to the young fellow who was going off: "You are like me, you have a heart, your wife will be happy.
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

But I had the use of my hands; an’ I jest made up my mind that if he wanted my scalp he would have to work for it; so, quick as lightnin’, I grabbed the hand that held the knife, an’ give it a squeeze that actooally made the bones crack, an’ the rascal give one yell, an’ let go the weapon.
— from Frank in the Woods by Harry Castlemon

“I’ll go over yonder and look among the trees, Mr Brazier, sir,” said Shaddy, after waiting for some more satisfactory reply, “and I’ll take it kindly if you and Mr Rob w
— from Rob Harlow's Adventures: A Story of the Grand Chaco by George Manville Fenn

Look into my eyes, and let me gaze on yours, and listen how these things shall be.
— from Beatrice by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The Queen also, and many others of the Court, became Christians; and altho' the King held out for a long Time with great Obstinacy, yet at last he submitted to be baptized.
— from An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Henry Brooke

The girls sat in a pew and twisted garlands of yew and laurel, which the boys, with the aid of a short ladder, fastened round the pillars.
— from A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Angela Brazil

Go, or you are lost.”
— from Nothing But the Truth by Frederic Stewart Isham