And you haven't met our president yet.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

When I did go, the governess took out her purse and said to me, "Pray excuse my only paying you at present for twelve lessons, for I have not enough money."
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Even then you had acquired by instinct that damnable woman's trick of heaping obligations on a man, of placing yourself so entirely and helplessly at his mercy that at last he dare not take a step without running to you for leave.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

We shall see!" "Ah, Mr. Clifford Pyncheon!" said the man of patches, "you may scheme for me as much as you please; but I'm not going to give up this one scheme of my own, even if I never bring it really to pass.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

His Excellency, Monseigneur the Minister of Police——” “Yes, his Excellency is taking a personal interest in the matter,” said Gondureau.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

I have no mamma or papa, you are all I have.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If you "stop" you can't chatter or expound or flounder ceaselessly, and if you think , you will find a topic and a manner of presenting your topic so that your neighbor will be interested rather than long-suffering.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

They'd think no more of polishing you off than of killing a fly.
— from Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series by Bracebridge Hemyng

There are now in the kingdom a million of Protestants; yet the validity of their marriage is still a question in the tribunals.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

I did not fear that you would give my servants any orders at variance with my wishes, since I had the right to forbid your doing anything which displeased me; but now that you are at liberty to do whatever suits you, if I gave you the right of commanding my servants, it might suit you to send them to all the four corners of Paris, at the very moment that I required their services here, and I should have no means of preventing you.
— from Moral Tales by Madame (Elisabeth Charlotte Pauline) Guizot

It occurred to me, that the best means of promoting your views was to recommend you to this office.
— from Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist (A Fragment) by Charles Brockden Brown

“For me the question is not whether you are a great poet, I know that,” he added, stroking down Lucien’s pride; “you have a great deal, a very great deal of merit; if I were only just starting in business, I should make the mistake of publishing your book.
— from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honoré de Balzac

An extract from my own pamphlet you have headed "The Fanatics," and in introducing it to your readers you inform them that "it exhibits, in strong colors, the morbid spirit of that false and fanatical philanthropy, which is at work in the Northern states, and, to some extent, in the South.
— from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII, Complete The Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life, and Criticism by John Greenleaf Whittier

she sobbed, "my own papa, you do not love me; me, your own little girl.
— from Elsie Dinsmore by Martha Finley