I'd a'most rather have you dead than that!”
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

What have you done to me?
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Gentle sir, have you done?
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

I had you down, and might Have made you finish.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Hence you discover the mistake of Sardanapalus, the wealthiest king of the Assyrians, who ordered it to be engraved on his tomb, I still have what in food I did exhaust; But what I left, though excellent, is lost.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I will help you, dearest, to meet the bill on Saturday;” and so saying I drew her gently into a closet where a soft divan formed a suitable altar for the completion of an amorous sacrifice.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But if they want a domestic England, they must “shell out,” as the phrase goes, to a vastly greater extent than any Radical politician has yet dared to suggest; they must endure burdens much heavier than the Budget and strokes much deadlier than the death duties; for the thing to be done is nothing more nor less than the distribution of the great fortunes and the great estates.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

“Would it not be safer and more certain if I should ask him his name and tell him yours?” demanded the host.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

he said, in such an accent of bitter sadness it thrilled along every nerve I had; “you don’t love me, then?
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Shorthand macros can help you do this faster and safer.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Beyond the first range of hills, you descry the sharp pinnacles of the interior; and among these, the same silent Marling-spike which we so often admired from the other side of the island.
— from Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville

'I hope you don't want to go,' he said, holding the door for her to pass back into the box.
— from A London Life, and Other Tales by Henry James

"My friend, sir," the second man went on, "is vat you call chippy because you come plomp into his bed of cabbage, very fine vegetable, vich remind him of his youthful days in ze ever-to-beloved Homeland."
— from Round the World in Seven Days by Herbert Strang

He especially delighted in being into my bottom while I fucked his wife, and he himself had the double pleasure of having young Dale’s fast growing pego into his bottom at the same time.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

"Whether you come to forgive me or not," she said, "if I ever can help you, Dodo, save you from anything, come to me!"
— from The Salamander by Owen Johnson

When I had traveled about one third of its length my attention was attracted to an excited group of men some three hundred yards distant.
— from My Friend Pasquale, and Other Stories by James Selwin Tait

Have you done something wrong?"
— from Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

This trick is the easiest to execute that I have yet described.
— from The Sharper Detected and Exposed by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin