“O, you do very well,” said the Terrapin, walking alongside.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

"Go on, you drunken vagabone," said the face.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

Is it so, Halford? Is that the extent of your domestic virtues; and does your happy wife exact no more?
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“And in point of fact, prince,” added Evgenie Pavlovitch, “you must allow that they could hardly have stayed here, considering that they knew of all that went on at your place, and in the face of your daily visits to their house, visits which you insisted upon making in spite of their refusal to see you.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I have not a doubt of your doing very well together.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

And he tells me that it is very true, he hath it from one that was by, that the King did, give the Duke of York a sound reprimand; told him that he had lived with him with more kindness than ever any brother King lived with a brother, and that he lived as much like a monarch as himself, but advised him not to cross him in his designs about the Chancellor; in which the Duke of York do very wisely acquiesce, and will be quiet as the King bade him, but presently commands all his friends to be silent in the business of the Chancellor, and they were so: but that the Chancellor hath done all that is possible to provoke the King, and to bring himself to lose his head by enraging of people.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

ye, With night, and clouds, and thunder, and a soul To make these felt and feeling, well may be Things that have made me watchful; the far roll Of your departing voices, is the knoll
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

This, with the firing of the cannon, our hurrahing, and the belief that Narvaez was dead, had the desired effect, and only the troops of young Diego Velasquez and of Salvatierra, who had taken up a position with the troops under their command, on the summit of a very high temple, where it was difficult to get at them, refused to submit.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Saturday the 27 of Iuly, we might descry not farre from vs, as it were mountaines of yce driuen vpon the sea, being then in 50 degrees, which were caried Southward to the weather of vs: whereby may be coniectured that some current doth set that way from the North.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

At Oxford you did very well indeed.
— from Berenice by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

"You have said things—done things—you have taken shameful advantage—you have treated me like—I suppose like—that other—that other—— You dared!" Van's face took on an expression of hardness, to mask the hurt of his heart.
— from The Furnace of Gold by Philip Verrill Mighels

Be nobly proud and holily enthusiastic at the prospect of your destinies' vast influence.
— from With Americans of Past and Present Days by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand

“Speak out, or you die!” vociferated Bonaparte.
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

the words it speaks, “Out of your darkened valleys of despair; Behold, I lift you upon mighty wings Into Hope’s living, reconciling air!
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, May 1884, No. 8 by Chautauqua Institution

The compass of your days, visible in that skin, will contract according to the strength and number of your desires, from the least to the most extravagant.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Would you bequeath to them the pleasing image of your liberal kindness, or the terrific one of your despairing vengeance?
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 2 of 5) by Fanny Burney

What if you want to save the other person’s message using the T B:MAGIC method—but in the middle of the conversation you also want to check the contents of your disk via the DIR command?
— from The Silicon Jungle by David H. Rothman