"Then at least open the door for me yourself," shouted Pinocchio, crying and imploring.
— from Pinocchio: The Tale of a Puppet by Carlo Collodi

"'Marry me.' "'Oh, I want to—oh, I want to marry you,' sobbed poor Cynthy.
— from Green Valley by Katharine Yirsa Reynolds

“But my lawyer tells me you seek pecuniary compensation for an affront.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

That Kansas will form a slave constitution, and with it will ask to be admitted into the Union, I take to be already a settled question, and so settled by the very means you so pointedly condemn.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

Has he made you some pretty compliments, and told you that you are beautiful?
— from The Secret Power by Marie Corelli

"I can't understand what's made you so pessimistic concerning yourself.
— from Frank Merriwell's Son; Or, A Chip Off the Old Block by Burt L. Standish

Regularly on the morning of each of these occasions, for very many years, some person called at his house for ten box-tickets, always paying for them at the time, in exactly the amount required, and leaving the house immediately, as if anxious to avoid notice.
— from Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi by Joseph Grimaldi