I don’t think there is much likelihood, Jack, of you and Miss Fairfax being united.
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

However, we may refer the matter to the judgment of your aunt.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

Oh, that stupid old joke of yours about me!
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

My clamorous blood to heaven for vengeance cries, Heaven will pour out his judgments on you all.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Those gay motes in the beam come about you, hovering and teazing, like so many coquets, that will have you all to their self, and are jealous of your abstractions.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

The Praise of an ignorant Man is only Good-will, and you should receive his Kindness as he is a good Neighbour in Society, and not as a good Judge of your Actions in Point of Fame and Reputation.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“Do you know what we were talking about when you came in?” “About jam?” “Oh, yes, about jam too; but afterwards, about how men make offers.” “Ah!” said Levin, listening more to the sound of her voice than to the words she was saying, and all the while paying attention to the road, which passed now through the forest, and avoiding places where she might make a false step.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Page 288 Page 289 The late administration came into employment, under the mediation of the Duke of Cumberland, on the tenth day of July, 1765; and was removed, upon a plan settled by the Earl of Chatham, on the thirtieth day of July, 1766, having lasted just one year and twenty days.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

But our progress from place to place shall continue to be specified in these detached journals of Yours always, J. MELFORD ARGYLSHIRE, Sept. 3. H2 anchor To Dr LEWIS.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I am not like some daughters; I will not be jealous of your art, and I will try to understand it.”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 21 by Robert Louis Stevenson

It was made for the Trianon and the date is just one year after Marie Antoinette's marriage:—"Memoire des ouvrages faits et livrés, par les ordres de Monsieur le Chevalier de Fontanieu, pour le garde meuble du Roy par Riesener, ébeniste a l'arsenal Paris," savoir Sept. 21, 1771; and then follows a fully detailed description of the table, with its price, which was 6,000 francs, or £240.
— from Illustrated History of Furniture: From the Earliest to the Present Time by Frederick Litchfield

We're not jealous of you at Scotland Yard.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

On that night with the cattle-dealer, I had an opportunity of judging of you; and I said, 'Here's the wife for me; she works better than a man.'"
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue

"You hear that, Mary," rejoined Miss Grizzy; "so I'm sure I hope you won't mind a word that your mother says to you, I mean about yourself; for of course you know she can't be such a good judge of you as us, who have known you all your life.
— from Marriage by Susan Ferrier

“I’m getting quite jealous of your attentions, little woman.
— from Ruby: A Story of the Australian Bush by Molly E. Jamieson

But over and above their valour, over and above their loyalty, over and above their exquisite æsthetic faculty, these Athenians had a resilience of self-reliant energy, like that of the French—like that, to do you but justice, of your Americans after your Chicago fire; and Athens rose from her ashes to be awhile, not only, as she had nobly earned by suffering and endurance, the leading state in Greece, but a mighty page 62 p. 62 fortress, a rich commercial port, a living centre of art, poetry, philosophy, such as this earth has never seen before or since.
— from Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 by Charles Kingsley

The sunny dining-room, with its windows wide open to sunshine and fresh sea air, the snowy curtains blowing softly to and fro, the wide sideboard where the children's outgrown mugs stood in a battered and glittering row, the one or two stiff, flat, old oil portraits that looked down from the walls, the jars of yellow acacia bloom, and bowls of mingled wild flowers; these made a setting wonderfully well suited to the long table and the happy family about it.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

They were in the jelly of youth, and this learned Professor poured into their susceptible hearts all the gentle gunpowder maxims of war.
— from White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville