And when I may I shall hie me after you.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“You may,” I said, “have me assassinated if you like, but I shall not leave Madrid till its suits me to do so.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“May I shoot him; me and Fred?”
— from Charlie Bell, The Waif of Elm Island by Elijah Kellogg

But for the chance that made me a Candy Man I should have missed a great deal—for one thing, a realisation of the opportunity that awaits the Fairy Godmother Society." "But Tim will soon be about again," said Margaret Elizabeth.
— from The Little Red Chimney: Being the Love Story of a Candy Man by Mary Finley Leonard

Perhaps if I said any more, I should hate myself afterward.”
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

"If," answered Napoleon, "Madame Remusat, your favourite, has made a fool of you, this is only to teach you that you shall not make a fool of me: Had not De Segur fortunately for him—had the ingenuity to extricate us from the dilemma into which my confidence and dependence on you had brought me, I should have made a fine figure indeed on the first day of my emperorship.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Still, since our Lord has made me understand how great a difference there is in heaven itself between the fruition of one and that of another, I see clearly enough that here also, when our Lord wills, He gives not by measure; [ 3 ] and so I wish that I myself observed no measure in serving His Majesty, and in using my whole life and strength and health therein; and I would not have any fault of mine rob me of the slightest degree of fruition.
— from The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus, of the Order of Our Lady of Carmel by Teresa, of Avila, Saint

If anybody had tried that sort of game on with me, I should have made an example of him myself, and taken the law in my own hands, whoever he was.
— from The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton: The Story of Her Life. Volume II by W. H. (William Henry) Wilkins

Now, if you will be good enough to tell me whether you have ever given her money; if so, how much; and what her expenditure has been, you will enable me to estimate her position at present."
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

Robert Elsmere, the Rector of Murewell, in Surrey, had made a scandal in the Church, when Meynell was still a lad, by throwing up his orders under the pressure of New Testament criticism, and founding a religious brotherhood among London workingmen for the promotion of a simple and commemorative form of Christianity.
— from The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[40] Mr Robert Montgomery, minister in Stirling, had made a simoniacal purchase of the Arch-bishopric of Glasgow from the earl of Lennox, for which he was to give him five hundred pounds sterling of yearly rent.
— from Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by John Howie