“But I am not a foreigner, sir,” said she, with an accent as pure as ever was heard between Portsmouth and Manchester; “my name is Lady Clarik, and this measure--” “This measure is general, madame; and you will seek in vain to evade it.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

And as he in many instances gave much advice to the Athenians, he was of exceedingly great service to them.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

When the brother saw that, he insisted on having the mill, and after a great deal of persuasion got it; but he had to give three hundred dollars for it, and the poor brother was to keep it till the haymaking was over, for he thought: “If I keep it as long as that, I can make it grind meat and drink that will last many a long year.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Pistayim na kug maminyù, I got married after the war.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Oh, Marilla, it gives me a shudder to think of it.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

My idea was to procure clothing to make myself a muffled but acceptable figure, to get money, and then to recover my books and parcels where they awaited me, take a lodging somewhere and elaborate plans for the complete realisation of the advantages my invisibility gave me (as I still imagined) over my fellow-men.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I took the best of everything and paid, and the dressmaker making her appearance at that moment I gave my address, requesting that various sorts of stuff might be sent at once.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

My imperial guard might also have become fatal under any other but myself.”
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

I don't like you—I don't like the moon; it gives me a pain here!"
— from Night and Morning, Volume 3 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me: I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
— from True Words for Brave Men: A Book for Soldiers' and Sailors' Libraries by Charles Kingsley

This is what all mankind in general make a point of doing, from the saint to the malefactor.
— from The Doubts of Infidels Or, Queries Relative to Scriptural Inconsistencies & Contradictions by William Nicholson

Might I give Monseigneur a word of advice?” “Let us listen to the words of wisdom which God Almighty sometimes puts into the mouths of children,” said the bishop, smiling.
— from The Village Rector by Honoré de Balzac

We are apprised that it is extremely improbable that the physician called in, if he be called in, has ever seen their effects, either on man or animals; that care will be taken that he shall not see them; that the poisoner has the advantage of preparation on his side; and finally, that discovery, when made, is generally made at some variable period after death, and then rather in consequence of an aggregation of suspicious collateral circumstances pointing to the commission of other crimes of a like nature than of any possible observations at the bedside of the murdered person.
— from The cremation of the dead considered from an aesthetic, sanitary, religious, historical, medico-legal, and economical standpoint by Hugo Erichsen

I tried to coax the old man into giving me a ride gratis, but he obstinately refused, saying that only the disembodied were allowed to cross, and that if he took me over he would catch the—— "Just the man I want to see," said I. "If I cannot go to him, except as a blessed defunct, will you have the goodness to hand my card to him, and say that I come from Chicago?"
— from Letters of Peregrine Pickle by George P. (George Putnam) Upton