'I also,' pursued Mr Sampson, 'respect you, ma'am, to an extent which must ever be below your merits, I am well aware, but still up to an uncommon mark.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

And this one I know was more especially beloved by you, as she was the first daughter after four sons, when you longed for a daughter, and so I gave her your name.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Let me see you leave this house at once, Miss Page; and if in the few hours which must elapse before breakfast you can find time to pack your trunks, you will still farther oblige me."
— from Agatha Webb by Anna Katharine Green

I rejoice in my English blood, because you are the happiest people on the face of the earth.
— from Michael by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

In that case I should use this pistol against myself, and you would seek in vain for the names of my eleven brethren; but your life would be forfeited--whether in the midst of your guards or in your tent, whether you ride or walk.
— from At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

May every blessing be yours!
— from Alone by Marion Harland

There was only one Maker, ever, but because your minds cannot conceive of all that glory residing in one figure, you invented a score."
— from The One and the Many by Stephen Marlowe

A LION TEN PINS ADMITTION To feed the lion-eater, one cent or two white chiney marbles extry but bring your own meat.
— from The Revolt of the Oyster by Don Marquis

Won't you let me help to atone for my error by being your friend?
— from The Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs

XXX Weep now no more, mine eyes, but be you drowned
— from Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Smith, William, active 1596

"I have spoken of my ambitions first, and of your [Pg 220] capacity to help them, not because such things are first in my estimation, but because you have treated them as worthy of being put first.
— from A Captain in the Ranks: A Romance of Affairs by George Cary Eggleston