"La, Jane, your husband's only joking," said Mrs. Pullet; "let him joke while he's got health and strength.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Then I say, “Well, my friend, you remember the main object of our journey; you have seen and observed; what is the final result of your observations?
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

As Young Jerry, thus encouraged, went on a few yards in advance, to plant the stool in the shadow of the Bar, Mr. Cruncher added to himself: “Jerry, you honest tradesman, there's hopes wot that boy will yet be a blessing to you, and a recompense to you for his mother!”
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Hush, my dear, said Mrs. Jervis; you have been in fit after fit.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

You got to go all by yourself, to the middle of the woods, where you know there’s a spunk-water stump, and just as it’s midnight you back up against the stump and jam your hand in and say: ‘Barley-corn, barley-corn, injun-meal shorts, Spunk-water, spunk-water, swaller these warts,’ and then walk away quick, eleven steps, with your eyes shut, and then turn around three times and walk home without speaking to anybody.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Ug hagdun, muhala dáyun, If you ask him to join you, he agrees right away.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

“I told you already to go gently, master commissary,” said Pasamonte; “their lordships yonder never gave you that staff to ill-treat us wretches here, but to conduct and take us where his majesty orders you; if not, by the life of-never mind-; it may be that some day the stains made in the inn will come out in the scouring; let everyone hold his tongue and behave well and speak better; and now let us march on, for we have had quite enough of this entertainment.” The commissary lifted his staff to strike Pasamonte in return for his threats, but Don Quixote came between them, and begged him not to ill-use him, as it was not too much to allow one who had his hands tied to have his tongue a trifle free; and turning to the whole chain of them he said: “From all you have told me, dear brethren, make out clearly that though they have punished you for your faults, the punishments you are about to endure do not give you much pleasure, and that you go to them very much against the grain and against your will, and that perhaps this one’s want of courage under torture, that one’s want of money, the other’s want of advocacy, and lastly the perverted judgment of the judge may have been the cause of your ruin and of your failure to obtain the justice you had on your side.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

“And, dear Joe, you have the best wife in the whole world, and she will make you as happy as even you deserve to be, you dear, good, noble Joe!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

I took the leather and proceeded very deliberately to count out the sum to which the horse-hire amounted, and having delivered it to him in the presence of witnesses, I said, “During the whole journey you have been of no service to us whatever; nevertheless, you have fared like ourselves, and have had all you could desire to eat and drink.
— from The Bible in Spain, Vol. 2 [of 2] Or, the Journeys, Adventures, and Imprisonments of an Englishman in an Attempt to Circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula by George Borrow

His passion must indeed be an extraordinary one, since it has existed so long without the least hope, in the midst of disappointments, in spite of the journeys you have made him undertake, and during eight months' residence in Paris, during which he never saw me, at least not at my house, and was unaware if I should ever receive him again.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

“Then,” said Jones, “you have used me rascally, and I will not pay you a farthing.”—“Very
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

I saw in my mirror the Julianna you had known and loved.
— from The Blue Wall A Story of Strangeness and Struggle by Richard Washburn Child

Sa, sa, sa, said Picrochole, by St. James you have given a true character of them.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Now, gentleman of the jury, you have heard the evidence.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“And tell my mother—my mother, John——” “Yes,” he said.
— from Peggy Owen, Patriot: A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

When will she join you here?'
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola

"Tell me of all the riches and jewels—the gold and silver-plates you eat from, the jewelry you have to wear, the rich silks—all of it!
— from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson