“I can see through you and three yards into the ground under you,” he continued, gazing at the floor in front of Dron.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
As soon as he has taken Shreveport, or as soon as he can spare you, return to Vicksburg with all dispatch, gather up your detachments, wagons, tents, transportation, and all property pertaining to so much of the command as belongs to the Sixteenth Army Corps, and conduct it to Memphis, where orders will await you.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman
Gitambakan ug yútà ang atábay, The well was filled with soil.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff
To give up your society would be to deprive myself of the greatest pleasure of my life.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
Give us your fore foot; give us your hand.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
“Get up, you little idiot!
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie
When day dawned, but before the sun had risen, the woman came and awoke the two children, saying: ‘Get up, you sluggards!
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm
[Gets up] Yes.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
"Take this," they would say, "and give us your treasure."
— from The Maker of Rainbows, and Other Fairy-tales and Fables by Richard Le Gallienne
When I saw you in that cottage this morning I thought of the words, 'Give, and it shall be given unto you.'
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Will you give up your money, or have we got to—. There—there—none of that!
— from Roughing It, Part 8. by Mark Twain
Like Peter Pan he does not grow up, yet he is a famous man; he has written great books, he has written fine poems, he has written brilliant essays, but he has never written a book with an appeal to an unthinking public that reads to kill thought.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Patrick Braybrooke
[97] 'Then,' says Guleesh, 'unless you give it to me at once I'll burn your house.'
— from Fairies and Folk of Ireland by William Henry Frost
You, gentlemen," continued he, addressing the two friends, "give up your swords."
— from Marguerite de Valois by Alexandre Dumas
27. 'By your sacrifices you have gained a place among the celestial gods, your fame is shining far and wide, your feet reflect the splendour of the head-ornaments of the kings (your vassals)—what then is it that you long for to give up your eyesight?'
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura
Thus Bishops Ravasz and Kapi decided to address an open declaration to the congregations and to the Protestant Christianity of the world: "We request all our brethren, the pastors belonging to our communions, that they read the following message to the congregations at the conclusion of next Sunday's morning service: To all congregations of the Hungarian Reformed Church and of the Hungarian Lutheran Church, Grace unto you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.
— from The Grey Book A collection of protests against anti-semitism and the persecution of Jews issued by non-Roman Catholic churches and church leaders during Hitlers rule by Johan M. Snoek
The impression which life makes upon us is quite different; the alternative of good is evil, of poetry is vulgarity; we demand a recognition of this from the novelist, and this the Russian novelists have given us, yet without leaving the firm ground of realist art.
— from Russia: Its People and Its Literature by Pardo Bazán, Emilia, condesa de
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