“My dear, dear anxious friend,”—said she, in mental soliloquy, while walking downstairs from her own room, “always overcareful for every body's comfort but your own; I see you now in all your little fidgets, going again and again into his room, to be sure that all is right.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

and like the talkative coxcomb he was, Cassio was led on to boast of Bianca's fondness for him, while Othello imagined, with choked rage, that he prattled of Desdemona, and thought, “I see your nose, Cassio, but not the dog I shall throw it to.”
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

How can I save you now?
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Having brought his investigation to this point, Sergeant Cuff discovered that such a person as Superintendent Seegrave was still left in the room, upon which he summed up the proceedings for his brother-officer’s benefit, as follows: “This trifle of yours, Mr. Superintendent,” says the Sergeant, pointing to the place on the door, “has grown a little in importance since you noticed it last.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Mr. Tupman had witnessed this process in silent astonishment, when Jackson, turning sharply upon him, said— ‘I think I ain’t mistaken when I say your name’s Tupman, am I?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

True, while my friend is grieved, his griefs I share; Yet now the rivals are my smallest care: They for the mighty mischiefs they devise, Ere long shall pay—their forfeit lives the price.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

And, with the grace of god, emforth my wit, As in my gilt I shal you never offende;
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Where is she, you nasty whelp, where is she?
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Though, in overseeing the pursuit of this whale, Captain Ahab had evinced his customary activity, to call it so; yet now that the creature was dead, some vague dissatisfaction, or impatience, or despair, seemed working in him; as if the sight of that dead body reminded him that Moby Dick was yet to be slain; and though a thousand other whales were brought to his ship, all that would not one jot advance his grand, monomaniac object.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

the axe, an ingenious device, and well worthy of those who know not what a gentleman is; you frighten me not, executioner’s axe,” added he, touching it with the cane which he held in his hand, “and I strike you now, waiting patiently and Christianly for you to return the blow.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I saw her as plainly as I see you now."
— from The Black Pearl by Woodrow, Wilson, Mrs.

If so, you needn't crown yourself at once With epic laurel if you seem to fill it.
— from The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson

My blessed love, my great Victor, my sublime beloved, I kiss in spirit your noble forehead with its generous thoughts, your beautiful eyes so gentle and powerful, your fascinating mouth, which has the happiness of speaking all your divine thoughts.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

But I suppose you never are; you don't seem to mind things like the rest of us."
— from Five Little Peppers Grown Up by Margaret Sidney

On the way Mr. Daniell was met by the headmen of the villages between Manton and Manpun who had come to tender their submission to the British Government. They were told that if Saw Yan Naing was with [279] them he must be given up, and fines were imposed on those groups or circles of villages which were known to have given the rebel leaders active help.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

'I know you well,' said he to his guest, 'Now that I see you nearer.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever

"How long it is since I saw you, Nicholas, my dear boy!"
— from Frank and Fearless; or, The Fortunes of Jasper Kent by Alger, Horatio, Jr.