Don’t use any bad words; and don’t stare when the young lady is not looking at you, and be ready to hide your face when she is; and, when you speak, say your words slowly, and keep your hands out of your pockets.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

If your state is not listed and you would like to know if we have added it since the list you have, just ask.
— from Relativity : the Special and General Theory by Albert Einstein

Now, madame, I took the precaution of drawing out your money the day before yesterday; it is not long ago, you see, and I was in continual expectation of being called on to deliver up my accounts.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

a good riddance too,” answered he; “I can bear your insolence no longer, an you come to that.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Who, on hearing these words, would choose to fight against lean wiry dogs, rather than, with the dogs on their side, against fat and tender sheep? That is not likely; and yet there might be a danger to the 111 E poor State if the wealth of many States were to be gathered into one.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

,” said he, “here standeth the good Knight, Brian de Bois-Guilbert, Knight Preceptor of the Order of the Temple, who, by accepting the pledge of battle which I now lay at your reverence's feet, hath become bound to do his devoir in combat this day, to maintain that this Jewish maiden, by name Rebecca, hath justly deserved the doom passed upon her in a Chapter of this most Holy Order of the Temple of Zion, condemning her to die as a sorceress;—here, I say, he standeth, such battle to do, knightly and honourable, if such be your noble and sanctified pleasure.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Kinta inyúhun na lang ang yútà bisag wà pa kabayri, In other words, you will have the land for yourselves even if you have not paid for it?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Who, on hearing these words, would choose to fight against lean wiry dogs, rather than, with the dogs on their side, against fat and tender sheep? That is not likely; and yet there might be a danger to the poor State if the wealth of many States were to be gathered into one.
— from The Republic by Plato

I'll bear it no longer; and yet, from my respect for his father, I'll be calm.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

But it is naughty, like a young child; and if I hold not its mouth, it screameth too loudly.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The dark creature claimed her, she declared herself helpless to escape from that dominion into normal life, and yet It never had spoken to her?
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

"Joshua," said Forrester, suddenly, "have you told this story to the young lady who is now living at your house?"
— from The Secret Toll by Paul Thorne

“She is not ‘left,’ as you say, my dear.
— from The First Violin A Novel by Jessie Fothergill

Lesperon looked on in no less amazement, yet I am sure from the manner of his glance that he did not recognize in me the man that had succoured him at Mirepoix.
— from Bardelys the Magnificent Being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys... by Rafael Sabatini

7 Several congregations of Separatists were located in the northeastern part of England, in some towns and villages in Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire.
— from England in America, 1580-1652 by Lyon Gardiner Tyler

Remember that when I next laugh at you!”
— from Eugene Pickering by Henry James

" "Don't flatter yourself; I never looked at your boots.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

You read Pamphilus de Amore : you find it dull when it is not licentious, and you most often find it both dull and licentious at the same time.
— from Chapters on Spanish Literature by James Fitzmaurice-Kelly

But if your lesson is not learnt, and you still think otherwise, go on a little while exultingly as now I see you, and hug the treasure to your heart—the treasure that will bring you yet more misery.
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

If you can imagine the lonely shade of the man who wrote that verse returning to Literary London—where there is no longer a young man who could write it, and merely a few greybeards are left still to understand what it means—I say, if you can imagine this, you may appreciate the condition of Conrad when he went back to the Quartier Latin.
— from Conrad in Quest of His Youth: An Extravagance of Temperament by Leonard Merrick