Do you know, Alfred, who used to call you 'the dragon,' has seen so much of you during the last few months, that he begins to feel quite friendly towards you.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

XLI How oft, when on a summer night Transparent o'er the Neva beamed The firmament in mellow light, And when the watery mirror gleamed No more with pale Diana's rays,(17) We called to mind our youthful days— The days of love and of romance!
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Sometimes a rough sarcasm turns up: He says to the unbelievers, Ye shall have the just measure of your deeds at that Great Day.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Elizabeth felt herself growing more angry every moment; yet she tried to the utmost to speak with composure when she said: “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner.”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

They will do as many of you do, labor by fits and starts all thru your lives at the endless task of making yourselves ready for heaven, and winning it by obedience and by righteousness.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

“I will tell you at the moment of your departure; trust in me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I am very curious to know what happened to you after your flight from The Leads, and after the proofs you have given me of your discretion I think I shall be able to tell you how we came to meet at Cesena, and how I returned to my country.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I desire to mediate in the matter of your difference with the Brothers Platonov.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

We two danced, not the dreary monotonies of your days—of this time, I mean—but dances that were beautiful, intoxicating.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Some day you will be glad that you showed me mercy: on your death-bed, when the mind's eye sees life passing away, when the soul pants in doubt whether, in its search, it can discern a hope of salvation, the holy 100 deed you now do me, will then shine forth, like the pillar of fire and cloud before the Israelites, to unveil to you the path to Heaven.
— from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

Their good conduct was only surpassed by their courage, and of them may be generally asserted what Maitland said to the heroic defenders of Hougoumont—"Every man of you deserves promotion."
— from With the Guards' Brigade from Bloemfontein to Koomati Poort and Back by Edward P. Lowry

The memory of you, darling, will last until the end of my life."
— from The Jolliest School of All by Angela Brazil

And while I was undergoing this secret torture, you were getting married, you had paid for your business, you were made law-clerk to the Maire of your district, after gaining a cross for a wound at Saint-Merri.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

,” said she, “in this world below, I know nothing worse calumniated than God and the eighteenth century; for as I look back over my own young days, I do not recollect that a single duchess trampled the proprieties underfoot as you have just done.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Long on toward the stroke of the hour, Dahlia heard her weep, and she murmured on, "You deceived me;" but it was no more to reproach; rather, it was an exculpation of her reproaches.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 5 by George Meredith

As the aide-de-camp departed, the prince turned coldly to Frantz, and said: "Return to your apartments, monsieur; you are under arrest until the moment of your departure."
— from Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

You can see me to-day only through the medium of your dream; but as soon as you try to analyze its details it will vanish away.
— from Urania by Camille Flammarion

"If it is in your power to predict the moment of your death, how can you be ignorant of the result of your inquiries?" asked the King.
— from The Works of Honoré de Balzac: About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita, and Other Stories by Honoré de Balzac