the magistrate exclaimed, “so here you are again, my fine fellow.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

There was another text, with variant readings put forward by Chu Fu of Ta-hsing, which also had supporters among the scholars of that period; but in the Ming editions, Sun Hsing- yen tells us, these readings were for some reason or other no longer put into circulation.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

"Remain a moment, Esther," said he, "You were in my thoughts."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

You know our Mr. Emerson said, 'Hitch your wagon to a star.'
— from Bud: A Novel by Neil Munro

It was the reply of France, the most emphatic she had yet made, to the Papal bull which gave all the western hemisphere to Portugal and Spain; and, as if to point her answer, she sent, not Frenchmen only, but Protestant Frenchmen, to plant the fleur-de-lis on the shores of the New World.
— from France and England in North America, Part I: Pioneers of France in the New World by Francis Parkman

that, instead of feeling surprised to find my cheeks so lank, and my eyes so hollow, you would rather be amazed to find an ounce of flesh upon my bones, did you know how careful are my days, and how sleepless my nights, under the perpetual harassments of civil war!—The haughty burgesses of Ghent, whom I could hate from my soul but that they are townsmen of my illustrious father, the low-minded Walloons, the morose Brugeois, the artful Brabançons—all the varied tribes, in short, of the old Burgundian duchy, seem to vie with each other which shall succeed best in thwarting and humiliating me.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 by Various

"'Ho, ho, Mr. Enos!' said he, 'you've found me out!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"In my experience," said he, "you can't get a decent car much under four hundred."
— from Simon by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

No example of that genus, or of Thamnophilus (in their most extended sense), has yet been found north of Cuba: their straight, cylindrical, and abruptly-hooked bills, offer a striking contrast to the lengthened, compressed, curved, and consequently feeble structure of this part in Thriothorus and Troglodytes .
— from Zoological Illustrations, Second Series, Volume 1 or, Original Figures and Descriptions of New, Rare, or Interesting Animals by William Swainson

"Naturally, mes enfants ," said he, "your weapons are perfect, as ever.
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough