This had been shown most strikingly in the first scene when, immediately upon the apparently cold words of Cordelia, 'So young, my lord, and true,' there comes this dreadful answer: Let it be so; thy truth then be thy dower.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Lay long in bed, so up to Church, and so home to dinner alone with my wife very pleasant.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

During E. H.'s matured life, continued from fifty to sixty years—while working steadily, earning his living and paying his way without intermission—he makes, as previously memorandized, several hundred preaching visits, not only through Long Island, but some of them away into the Middle or Southern States, or north into Canada, or the then far West—extending to thousands of miles, or filling several weeks and sometimes months.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Let it be said of each of you: “He was in the great battle before Moscow!”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But a bird sang blithely on a budding bough, close by, the snow-drops blossomed freshly at the window, and the spring sunshine streamed in like a benediction over the placid face upon the pillow,—a face so full of painless peace that those who loved it best smiled through their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

My own complete happiness, and the home-centred interests which rise up around the man who first finds himself master of his own establishment, were sufficient to absorb all my attention; while Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his old books, and alternating from week to week between cocaine and ambition, the drowsiness of the drug, and the fierce energy of his own keen nature.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Not that we would willingly accord this advice the least influence, but she may repeat the same thing to us for twenty years together.
— from On Love by Stendhal

By inheritance and marriage he was rich in lands, and, let it be said in respectful sorrow, rich also in slaves, so far as slaves breed riches rather than curses.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 12 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

Whatever you say to me, let it be said privately; do not hurt Cecily.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing

They are a good lot, I believe, some of them I am sure are, and we have taken to them amazingly.
— from The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine

Let it be said, however, that the general opportunities for acquiring correct and elevated taste are, on the whole, greater in Germany than in England; and that in many cities there is a profusion of exterior ornament, more especially in Munich, in the shape of the fresco paintings of the Palace Garden, on Isar Thor, and in the Basilica and churches generally, so that the eye is better educated in artistic combinations; and the same necessity does not exist for special art instruction with them as page
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

They reteine also the ancient name (lord) still, although it be not a little impugned by such as loue either to heare of change of all things, or can abide no 1.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

“I wish you all lived in Beartown,” said Nora impulsively, “and that Mike would call to see us every day.” “Whisht, now,” said he, lowering his voice.
— from The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Edward Sylvester Ellis

I am at times tempted to ask whether my opponent can be quite logical in being so courteous; whether, if he is as sure as he says that I am in the devil's service, I ought not, as a matter of duty, to be encountered with the old dogmatism and arrogance.
— from Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2] by Leslie Stephen

"Can it be possible, Mr. Albert, that we are to land in boats such a night as this?" continued he.
— from Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott