I wish the people of London, and the people of this country to know, sir, that they may rely upon me—that I will not desert them, that I am resolved to stand by them, Sir, to the last.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

You may rely upon me.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

My hour is almost come, When I to sulph’rous and tormenting flames Must render up myself.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Listen, friends; as I lay in my grief, three goddesses girded with goat-skins from the neck downwards round the back and waist, like maidens, stood over my head nigh at hand; and they uncovered me, drawing my cloak away with light hand, and they bade me rise up myself and go and rouse you, and pay to our mother a bounteous recompense for all her travail when she bare us so long in her womb, when Amphitrite shall have loosed Poseidon's swift-wheeled car.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

But my Drunkenness has had a great Hand in bringing my Ruin upon me.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

M. Return unto me, and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of hosts.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

After having done with him to the office, and there all the morning, and in the middle of our sitting my workmen setting about the putting up of my rails upon my leads, Sir J. Minnes did spy them and fell a-swearing, which I took no notice of, but was vexed, and am still to the very heart for it, for fear it should put him upon taking the closett and my chamber from me, which I protest I am now afraid of.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“Whatever you tell me, you may rely upon my keeping to myself—if that's it.”
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I possessed it in my room, under my eyes!
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

I’ve been hungry prowling inside this stinking enclosure with some of these vagabonds shoving their mugs right under my nose.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

She is now sixteen years of age, so that this new burden must rest upon my shoulders for five full years to come.”
— from Dorothy South: A Love Story of Virginia Just Before the War by George Cary Eggleston

There could be no more rational union, Miss Lovel."
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope

"I am asking only my rights," urged Marishka desperately.
— from The Secret Witness by George Gibbs

He said there appeared to be a difference, which he regretted to find was not likely to be adjusted; that he gave no opinion upon the matter itself, and merely gave it upon the principle involved; that Lord Melbourne was now Minister, and it was for him to advise the Queen; and then he stood up, and with great energy said, 'and if he will take upon himself the responsibility, he may rely upon me, and I will put myself in the breach.'
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 2 (of 3), Volume 2 (of 3) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 by Charles Greville

c. My beloved ſpake and ſaid unto mee, riſe up my love, my Dove, my faire one, and come away; for loe the winter is paſt, the raine is over and gone: the flowers appeare on the earth, the time of ſinging of birds is come, and the voice of the Turtle is heard in our Land.
— from The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils by Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski

Commanding officers were directed to promulgate these orders: "1. Relations between officers and men must rest upon mutual confidence.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

“Mr. Knox has been with me in some of the most delicate cases which I have ever handled, and you may rely upon his discretion as you may rely upon mine.”
— from Bat Wing by Sax Rohmer

Should it be my good fortune to be chosen your representative, you may rely upon my utmost endeavours to deserve that honour.
— from Pelham — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He was a man rather under middle size, black hair curling all round his head, eyes quick and bright, and whole appearance handsome at once and business-like.
— from The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner

“You may rely upon my prudence, sir,” said Gieeson.
— from The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles James Lever