"Lay aft," said the mate, as he turned to go, "the steward has your dinner ready, and don't forget to bring your napkin."
— from Under Sail by Felix Riesenberg

I know you don’t have your dinner regular as you used.”
— from Why Frau Frohmann Raised Her Prices, and Other Stories by Anthony Trollope

“Say, you fellows have got to hump yourselves,” declared Randy, as he came up to his cousins.
— from The Rover Boys Under Canvas; Or, The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine by Edward Stratemeyer

"What have you done?" repeated a number of voices, "why, you have dared to stick yourself up with our betters, when we, who were worth thousands more than such as you, were made to keep our distance,—that's what you have done!"
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue

“My dear child, how you do rush at conclusions!”
— from Blanche: A Story for Girls by Mrs. Molesworth

The old knight was some time before he could make up his mind to put his promise into execution, not that he had any objection to the choice of his daughter, for he loved his future son-in-law with the affection of a father; he even felt his younger days revive again as it were in his own person, and could not forget the disinterested sacrifice Albert had made in sharing the exile of the Duke; but, like as the horizon of Ulerich's affairs was enveloped in darkness, so was the old man's brow clouded by anxious misgivings, apprehensive lest circumstances should not long remain in the state they were.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

"What would I have you do?" replied Antoñona, more gently, and with insinuating accents; "I will tell you what I would have you do.
— from Pepita Ximenez by Juan Valera

Hyd: You dear Romantic Angel, what brought you hither thus equipt?
— from The Covent Garden Theatre, or Pasquin Turn'd Drawcansir by Charles Macklin

At first sight her youthful, delicate, refined, and lady-like appearance, showing she had never been accustomed to any hardships of life, caused me to doubt her capacity to fill the position of matron.
— from Memories A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War by Fannie A. Beers

Why, there was my good cousin De Chevreuse, with her young daughter, rode across the country, both in cavaliers' habits, and, finding no other gîte , stayed all night with the good simple curé of the parish, who never found out they were women till they were gone.
— from Lord Montagu's Page: An Historical Romance by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James