And in our heart—strange are the ways of evil!—in our heart there is the first peace we have known in twenty years.
— from Anthem by Ayn Rand

To him, Dol, suckle him.—This is the noble knight, I told your ladyship— MAM.
— from The Alchemist by Ben Jonson

Some have noted, [244] that in digging the foundation of this new work, namely of a chapel on the south side of Paule’s church, there were found more than a hundred scalps of oxen or kine, in the year 1316; which thing (say they) confirmed greatly the opinion of those which have reported, that of old time there had been a temple of Jupiter, and that there was daily sacrifice of beasts.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

What she does not know is that you, her son, should have listened to them so complaisantly.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Why, you know I told you,” replied Danglars, “that I considered the circumstance of his having anchored at the Island of Elba as a very suspicious circumstance.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And they said, We hope, when the happy knot is tied, you will induce Mr. B—— to reside more among us.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The only thing I know is that you always do what no one else does.” “Yes,” said Levin, slowly and with emotion, “you’re right.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Always use a square or reef knot in tying your reef points.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

my watchman stented, If poets e'er are represented; I ken if that your sword were wanted, Ye'd lend a hand; But when there's ought to say anent it, Ye're at a stand.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

"I do not wish to know, I told you.
— from The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn

You know I told you of those wonderful open-air performances of Greek plays that have been going on at a spot not far from Ravenwood, the motion picture studio where Everett and Anne filmed Hamlet and Macbeth.
— from Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer by Josephine Chase

Do you know I think you are a little too severe in calling her a mean, spiteful, slipshod, vulgar, dumpy little flirt?"
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 47, September, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

You can’t keep it to yourself.
— from Oakdale Boys in Camp by Morgan Scott

The only tone in a minor key, is that you do not expect to like Berlin much after Rome; but
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

"Yes, my dear," replied Airs Herbert; "you know I told you it was not a very interesting story."
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

It was evident, too, that she did not wish for sympathy just then, for brushing off the soil from [Pg 52] her dress, and making very light of the matter, she seemed to say: 'I don't want your sympathy; please to keep it to yourselves.'
— from Aunt Mary by Mrs. Perring

"You're a queer little kite," interjected the young man, and he exchanged an amused glance with Mrs. Minley, who was swaying gently back and forth in a rocking-chair.
— from 'Tilda Jane: An Orphan in Search of a Home. A Story for Boys and Girls by Marshall Saunders

When you had found out the real, happy truth about God, it didn't seem right to keep it to yourself.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

Fair Knight, I thank you for your noble offer, Therefore gentle Knight, Twelve shillings you must pay, or I must cap you.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher