“My dearest Mina,— “I must say you tax me very unfairly with being a bad correspondent.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

This is an amateur affair, it is true—a vaudeville de pensionnat; certain modifications I might sanction, yet something you must have to announce you as of the nobler sex."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Friar John went that very moment among the sutlers, into the cooks’ tents, and told them in a pleasing manner: I must see you crowned with honour and triumph this day, my lads; to your arms are reserved such achievements as never yet were performed within the memory of man.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I feared long ago, when I struck him on the mouth with my glove, that I might do it some day for the trap he set for me in my simple youth, and his wrong to you through me.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Hidapyuhan ta man kag dì ka muhílum, I might slap you if you don’t shut up.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

That I may be as little burthensome as possible, I would willingly serve in your shop, by which means I may save you the expense of a journeyman, or porter at least, for I understand a little pharmacy, having employed some of my leisure hours in the practice of that art, while I lived with Mr. Potion; neither am I altogether ignorant of surgery, which I have studied with great pleasure and application.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

And then, when your mind is more settled you can come back here.
— from Burning Sands by Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome) Weigall

He too feared it, and between his intervals of pain would say, "I want to see my little girl once more: I must see your mother.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, November, 1878 by Various

You will ride over to the farm each day, and tell Charlie any news you may have learnt, or take any message I may send you for him.
— from A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

And I shall study still your love: farewell Sir, For these few hours I must desire your pardon, I have business of importance: once a day At least I hope you'll see me: I must see you else:
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher