I wish you would give us your Observations, that we may know how to treat these Rogues, or that we Masters may enter into Measures to reform them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“He’s gone up yonder over the roof.
— from Red Fox The Story of His Adventurous Career in the Ringwaak Wilds and of His Final Triumph over the Enemies of His Kind by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

“I am certain of it; or would you always give up your opinion to that of persons in a superior state, however inferior in their understanding?
— from Nature and Art by Mrs. Inchbald

"Say, kape yer feet offen the grass, unless ye own the earth!"
— from On the Lightship by Herman Knickerbocker Vielé

“If we give you back your guns,” went on the Boy gently, “will you both give us your oath to clear right out of this country altogether, and not trap at all this side of the line?
— from The House in the Water: A Book of Animal Stories by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

By the way, farmer, the first thing after sunrise, I want you to be sure to gear up your ox team, and take a cord of your best hickory and pitch pine to the widow."
— from The Three Brides, Love in a Cottage, and Other Tales by Francis A. (Francis Alexander) Durivage

We place ourselves and guide under your orders, though I reserve the right to beat him to a pleasing pulp when he gets sober enough to feel it.
— from The Coming of Cassidy—And the Others by Clarence Edward Mulford

There is no shade of conciliation when he declares: "But though we, or an angel from heaven, should preach any Gospel unto you other than that we preached unto you, let him be accursed....
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels