“Oh, yes, I suppose I shall have to, although I know I’ll hate to do it.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

He is as terrible to me as a Gorgon: if I see him I swear I shall turn to stone, petrify incessantly.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

If, when that time is expired, I have not found the water of which we are in search, I swear to you, I will give up my mighty enterprise and return to the earth's surface."
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

If the part is trifling she will have more credit in making something of it; and if she is so desperately bent against everything humorous, let her take Cottager's speeches instead of Cottager's wife's, and so change the parts all through; he is solemn and pathetic enough, I am sure.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

They reached the feeble light, which came from the smoky lamp of a little railway station; a poor enough terrestrial star, yet in one sense of more importance to Talbothays Dairy and mankind than the celestial ones to which it stood in such humiliating contrast.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

“I see, I see.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

But Moses prevented the enemies, and took and led his army before those enemies were apprized of his attacking them; for he did not march by the river, but by land, where he gave a wonderful demonstration of his sagacity; for when the ground was difficult to be passed over, because of the multitude of serpents, [which it produces in vast numbers, and, indeed, is singular in some of those productions, which other countries do not breed, and yet such as are worse than others in power and mischief, and an unusual fierceness of sight, some of which ascend out of the ground unseen, and also fly in the air, and so come upon men at unawares, and do them a mischief,] Moses invented a wonderful stratagem to preserve the army safe, and without hurt; for he made baskets, like unto arks, of sedge, and filled them with ibes, 23 and carried them along with them; which animal is the greatest enemy to serpents imaginable, for they fly from them when they come near them; and as they fly they are caught and devoured by them, as if it were done by the harts; but the ibes are tame creatures, and only enemies to the serpentine kind: but about these ibes I say no more at present, since the Greeks themselves are not unacquainted with this sort of bird.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

"Broke loose, I suppose?" I said.
— from Roughing it De Luxe by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

There was a fellow near, an artful knave, Who knew the plan, and much assistance gave; He wrote the puffs, and every talent plied To make it sell: it sold, and then he died.
— from George Crabbe: Poems, Volume 1 (of 3) by George Crabbe

"I see; I see.
— from Five Thousand an Hour: How Johnny Gamble Won the Heiress by George Randolph Chester

"Well, for the next week or two," I said, "I shall be living in a little hut on the marshes about two miles to the east from here, and quite close to the sea-wall.
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges

I do most mirthfully relish the one-sided combat, in which I stand in silence to receive thy blows, myself unhurt and tranquil as a marble god whom ruffians rail upon!
— from Ardath: The Story of a Dead Self by Marie Corelli

when, in my Navigation I saw it scattered here and there:
— from Curious Creatures in Zoology by John Ashton

So I stand in strife between two impulses, sometimes judge, sometimes accomplice.
— from The great Galeoto; Folly or saintliness two plays done from the verse of José Echegaray into English prose by Hannah Lynch by José Echegaray