Therefore, painter, put as many as you can into this room.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

“You have given me all you can give me, and from to-day your debt is paid.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

But mind, Sancho, if by good luck you should find yourself with some government, don't forget me and your children.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

But, my dear Rosamond, as a question of pride, which I feel just as much as you can, it is surely better to manage the thing ourselves, and let the servants see as little of it as possible; and since you are my wife, there is no hindering your share in my disgraces—if there were disgraces.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Meanwhile a young cocoa-nut frond, twisted into a slip-knot with V-shaped ends (something like the “merry thought” of a fowl), is presented to the bride and bridegroom, each of whom takes hold of one end, and blowing on it ( sĕmbor ) thrice, pulls it till it comes undone, and the lĕpas-lĕpas rite is concluded.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

you choose rather to leave us miserable; and you coolly tell me it is the will of God that we should remain so.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“The only difference is that I don’t contend that extraordinary people are always bound to commit breaches of morals, as you call it.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

THE news was all over town in two minutes, and you could see the people tearing down on the run from every which way, some of them putting on their coats as they come.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

You could see him approach the stove, in which there was never any fire, and whose pipe, you know, was of mastic and yellow clay.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also: unless it be that range of Greek and Latin, and that of French; and those I know one from another: it is as much as you can expect of a poor man’s daughter.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

" "What made you come home?" "If I'd wanted to I might have stayed there and had 'other young men,' as you call them, coming to see me yet.
— from Duffels by Edward Eggleston

And that you did not mind about your cap.
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

"But it will cost you such a lot of money to take us all away, Martin; and you could not leave Allegra or the baby.
— from All along the River: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The influence of the conversion of that rich, strong Brahmin family has been marvellous, as you can imagine, and is increasing every day.
— from In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets

'You're not mad, are you, Churchill?'
— from Babylon, Volume 1 by Grant Allen

You avoid your weak strokes as much as you can; your object then is to win the game.
— from Lawn Tennis for Ladies by Mrs. Lambert Chambers

"Brother, your zeal for the institution of Masonry, the progress you have made in the mystery, and your conformity to our regulations, have pointed you out as a proper object of our favor and esteem.
— from The Mysteries of Free Masonry Containing All the Degrees of the Order Conferred in a Master's Lodge by William Morgan