'The true point is,' pursued Lavinia, 'that Bella has behaved in a most unsisterly way to me, and might have severely compromised me with George and with George's family, by making off and getting married in this very low and disreputable manner—with some pew-opener or other, I suppose, for a bridesmaid—when she ought to have confided in me, and ought to have said, “If, Lavvy, you consider it due to your engagement with George, that you should countenance the occasion by being present, then Lavvy, I beg you to be present, keeping my secret from Ma and Pa.”
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Living so lone here, you lose your count, I daresay; and then, when your loom makes a noise, you can't hear the bells, more partic'lar now the frost kills the sound.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Look ye, carpenter, I dare say thou callest thyself a right good workmanlike workman, eh?
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

“Lord love you, child, I didn’t need a reason––I only wanted an excuse.
— from The Treasure Trail: A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine by Marah Ellis Ryan

Look you, Constance, I do not mind confessing it to you, for you are not only young, but of that happy sort who yield to imagination something of its due.
— from A Pilgrim Maid: A Story of Plymouth Colony in 1620 by Marion Ames Taggart

[143] Every day it seems to get browner and flabbier, and at last you cut it down because it is so unsightly.
— from The Children's Book of Gardening by Mrs. Paynter

"I don't know if he will let you come in, dear.
— from One of Ours by Willa Cather

Each valiant deed performed against the Turk was recompensed by you with new persecutions, till at last you converted into deadly enemies those who would willingly have been your friends and fast allies.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

The leading Yádava chief in Dwáriká was Ugrasena, and Ugrasena’s three chief supporters were the families of Yadu, Bhoja, and Andhaka.
— from History of Gujarát Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, Volume I, Part I. by James M. Campbell

'As the religion of your country,' said she, 'and in which you were [Pg 539] bred, affords a great number of those safe and sure asylums for persons who have made ill use of their liberty, you cannot, indeed, do better than to fly to some one of them for refuge from temptations, which you have too much experienced the force of; and if you persevere in this good disposition, I will endeavour to procure the means of rendering you able to accomplish so laudable a desire.'
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

When my fellow-countrymen left your city, I did not follow them.
— from The Republic of the Southern Cross, and other stories by Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov

"I say, friend," said Malicorne to the lapidary, "your child is dead, and there's an end of it!
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue