“In the yard.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Indeed, count,” said Morcerf, “I thank you sincerely for having used so much candor towards me, and I gratefully accept the exclusion which you propose.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

“I tell you that with that wretched sum,” continued Andrea, “I could obtain a coat, and a room in which to receive the illustrious visitor I am daily expecting.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

When I had completed the drawing I gave it to you, and observed you narrowly until you returned it.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

I think your tired soul sought rest in a woman's arms, and when you found no rest there you hated her.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Yes, a little: I thought you had laughed at me, cousin.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

"I thought you were gone into town with the other teachers," said he, taking a grim gripe of his self-possession, which half-escaped him—"It is as well you are not.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

The history relates that it was with the greatest attention Don Quixote listened to the ragged knight of the Sierra, who began by saying: "Of a surety, senor, whoever you are, for I know you not, I thank you for the proofs of kindness and courtesy you have shown me, and would I were in a condition to requite with something more than good-will that which you have displayed towards me in the cordial reception you have given me; but my fate does not afford me any other means of returning kindnesses done me save the hearty desire to repay them."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

With this house it had been the Irish first; and then a Bohemian family had lost a child of it—though, to be sure, that was uncertain, since it was hard to tell what was the matter with children who worked in the yards.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

The total production of all the islands that year was 807,591 piculs.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

"I tell you, man, she does work, she is working at her own shroud, and I think she has got a good bit of it ready.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

"It's just about the saddest thing that ever came to my knowledge," I said; "and you won't be angry if I say that I think you ought to stick to him and make the best of it?" "You're not a woman.
— from We Three by Gouverneur Morris

“I tell you, boys, you must work hard for that colonel’s shoulder-straps,” said Mrs. Newman, taking her stand in the door with her arms placed on her hips.
— from A Rebellion in Dixie by Harry Castlemon

“I thank you,” he said to the leader of the soldiers, at the same time giving him a piece of money.
— from The Middy and the Moors: An Algerine Story by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“O, sir, I thank you.”
— from The Unseen Hand; or, James Renfew and His Boy Helpers by Elijah Kellogg

Your only excuse is that you're young.
— from Charles Rex by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

Perhaps there might not have been so many tears even now, if the young men had not stood together so smilingly to receive their gift; it was seeing them so gay and confident, so strong in their youth and so unselfish of purpose; it was this, and the feeling that all of them must suffer and some of them die before they came back.
— from The Two Vanrevels by Booth Tarkington