Why, only the other day I heard our master say to Mrs. Blomefield, 'My dear madam, you need not be anxious about the children; my old Merrylegs will take as much care of them as you or I could; I assure you I would not sell that pony for any money, he is so perfectly good-tempered and trustworthy;' and do you think I am such an ungrateful brute as to forget all the kind treatment I have had here for five years, and all the trust they place in me, and turn vicious because a couple of ignorant boys used me badly?
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

May you never want!
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

I will never mention your name.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Mellow, melancholy, yet not mournful, the tone seemed to gush up out of the deep well of Hepzibah's heart, all steeped in its profoundest emotion.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

May you not complain of your brothers—for it is to these that a man may look for support, however great his quarrel may be?
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Everything gets known by SOME knower along with something else; but the knowers may in the end be irreducibly many, and the greatest knower of them all may yet not know the whole of everything, or even know what he does know at one single stroke:—he may be liable to forget.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

‘If you don’t want any more, you needn’t.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And you in solitude will weep O'er scenes beloved in vain, And pine away your life to view Once more your native plain.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Might you not speak to 110 her about mending her ways, which at present might easily cause unpleasantness on the part of her husband?
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

I was your spy, but it was only to bring you into a snare; I fed your pride, but it was only that it might turn the hearts of all men against you; I tempted your avarice, only that wealth might make your nights sleepless, and your days, days of fear; I roused your wrath into rage; I inflamed your ambition into frenzy!
— from Tarry thou till I come; or, Salathiel, the wandering Jew. by George Croly

Some of you have all the money you need to provide for your wants.
— from Sketches in Crude-oil Some accidents and incidents of the petroleum development in all parts of the globe by John J. (John James) McLaurin

"How much you need?"
— from Pollony Undiverted by Sydney J. Van Scyoc

Fame hath not stamped me yet; nor may I take
— from Wilhelm Tell by Friedrich Schiller

For a third time my tongue repeated, ‘Your name—tell me your name.’
— from As It Was Written: A Jewish Musician's Story by Henry Harland

Then this season of education will command the largest remuneration, as it will secure the finest powers to the work; and because such work cannot be pursued by any one person for many years, nor even for a short time without assistance, relieving from the ceaseless attention that a company of small children requires, for little children cannot be wound up to go like watches; but to keep them in order, the teacher must constantly meet their outbursting life with her own magnetic forces; while their [64] employments must be continually interchanged, and mingled with their recreations.
— from Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class; and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

It has been my pleasant duty to mention your name in my dispatches, in connection with many services meritoriously rendered, the latest having reference to the very valuable assistance rendered by you prior to and during the battle of Nanshan; and this appointment is the outward token of the authorities’ appreciation of those services.
— from Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Harry Collingwood

She had not heard him spoken of—her mother forbade the subject—for many years, nor had he ever communicated with her directly; but her childish recollections of him were very sweet.
— from The Eddy: A Novel of To-day by Clarence Louis Cullen

I mock you not, by Heaven,’ etc.
— from The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 01 (of 12) by William Hazlitt