" The conversation now took a more friendly turn; and Erling said, "Although Magnus was not chosen king according to what has been the old custom of this country, yet can you with your power give him consecration as king, as God's law prescribes, by anointing the king to sovereignty; and although I be neither a king, nor of kingly race, yet most of the kings, within my recollection, have not known the laws or the constitution of the country so well as I do.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Krook replies, "You might as well ask me to describe the ladies whose heads of hair I have got in sacks downstairs.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The king replied: 'Yes, my dear; Chartres has had a fall on his way here, and has been carried into a house at Sablonville.'
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

KING RICHARD You mock me, madam; this is not the way To win your daughter.
— from The Tragedy of King Richard III by William Shakespeare

For, hostile as he was to the claims of Austria, the newly-restored king resented yet more strongly the changes which had been introduced during the [28] French occupation.
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

"My dear fellow," Kenwick retorted, "you may be a very decent architect, but I'll be hanged if you have the first inkling of what art means."
— from A Venetian June by Anna Fuller

But, Helen,” continued she earnestly, “remember that this is not to be known; remember you must not breathe the least hint of what I have told you to mamma or the general.”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

"It is no tax to do a helpless person a kindness," replied young man.
— from The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia by Allan Arnold

"No," was the kind reply; "you may go, but I must stay here to prayers."
— from Woman and Her Saviour in Persia By a Returned Missionary by Thomas Laurie

With kind regards, Yours most sincerely, DAVID POPPER.
— from The Repairing & Restoration of Violins 'The Strad' Library, No. XII. by Horace Petherick