She just stepped into the schoolroom on her return from ordering dinner in the housekeeper’s room, bade me good-morning, stood for two minutes by the fire, said a few words about the weather and the ‘rather rough’ journey I must have had yesterday; petted her youngest child—a boy of ten—who had just been wiping his mouth and hands on her gown, after indulging in some savoury morsel from the housekeeper’s store; told me what a sweet, good boy he was; and then sailed out, with a self-complacent smile upon her face: thinking, no doubt, that she had done quite enough for the present, and had been delightfully condescending into the bargain.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Help yourself, Parfitt; help yourself, Moncrief!"
— from The Hero of Garside School by Panting, J. Harwood, (James Harwood)

Among other works of his are: Historia Politica y Literaria de los Trovadores ; Historia de Cataluña ; Los Pirineos ; Cristobal Colon ; Estudios Historicos y Politicos ; Historias y Tradiciones ; Instituciones y Reyes de Aragon .
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Atrebates to Bedlis Vol. 1 Part 3 by Various

Remember monkeys in the Eocene formations: but I admit that you have made out an excellent objection and difficulty, and I can give only unsatisfactory and quite vague answers, such as you have yourself put; however, you hardly put weight enough on the absolute necessity of variations first arising in the right direction, videlicet, of seals beginning to feed on the shore.
— from Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

As for that, Pharold knows the place better than I do a great deal, for he lived in that very house for many a month, and--" "Hold your peace, hold your peace, woman," interrupted Pharold.
— from The Gipsy: A Tale (Vols I & II) by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Dr. Davidson's a fine man, an' a've herd ye praise him yersel... if ye promised tae gang at a time, maybe....”
— from The Days of Auld Lang Syne by Ian Maclaren

Only, in the first place, let us hear how your taste for the theatre gradually reached a head; how you practised, how you improved so happily, that now you can pass for a superior actor.
— from Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Have ye? ( pause ) Have ye been good?
— from Christmas Speakin' at Skaggs's Skule by Marie Irish

You have held your peace, held your peace—and then, suddenly, you say that!"
— from Orlóff and His Wife: Tales of the Barefoot Brigade by Maksim Gorky

Had you held your peace, had you let the King fall a victim to him and those who egged him on to such wickedness--the King who persuaded your own King to do justice to you--then would you not have been the hero in my eyes that you are."
— from Traitor and True: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

I knew how high your pa had you educated in music, and, like the old fool I was, I kept thinking you'd sing for me some evening—"Sweet
— from The Man from Home by Harry Leon Wilson