Push as rapidly as you can to the Hiawassee, and determine for yourself what force to take with you from that point.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

But surely it is a far less serious thing for you to take and pay it back to-day than it would have been to pay the tithe of it, before we came to you; since the limit between less and more is no fixed number, but depends on the relative capacity of payer and recipient, and your yearly income now is larger than the whole property which you possessed in earlier days.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The sins of your past are rising against you.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

‘Twenty Eight,’ returned my informant, speaking throughout in a low tone, and looking over his shoulder as we walked along the passage, to guard himself from being overheard, in such an unlawful reference to these Immaculates, by Creakle and the rest; ‘Twenty Eight (also transportation) got a place, and robbed a young master of a matter of two hundred and fifty pounds in money and valuables, the night before they were going abroad.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The peasants are rioting, and you can’t manage them?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Good night, you loafers, you worst of all company, not paying any rent and yet peeking into all pots.
— from Andrea Delfin by Paul Heyse

I wish the bulk of my extravagant countrymen had as good prospects and resources as you.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson

It is customary for the indians to pay a real at Yana Cancha for the loan of each bundle, which they engage to deliver on their [Pg 362] return, or they give two bundles for one instead of a real; thus travellers carry under their arms during the day the roof which is to shelter them at night.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

This Spanish Pilot we bid to supper with vs, and the Englishmen likewise, where he shewed vs all the manner of their fight, much commending the order and maner of the Englishmens fighting, as also their courteous vsing of him: but in the end the English Pilot likewise stole away in a French ship, without paying any ransome as yet.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt

Make your preparations as rapidly as you can, and if nothing better offers in the mean while, and your mother consents to Edward's proposition, you shall go with him—and Ben who travelled all over Europe with your father and myself—as your protectors."
— from Grandmother Elsie by Martha Finley

The silver, as it widened, was shot through with pink and red and yellow, the colors of the morning.
— from The Tree of Appomattox by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Think of an individual as an adult Caucasian, "an inhabitant of North America, belonging to the better classes," as to religion a moderate churchman, in politics a Republican, and you may accumulate a number of details interesting enough in a stranger.
— from The Gentle Reader by Samuel McChord Crothers

As she drew away from us I began to realize my position and responsibility: a young midshipman, yet in my teens, commanding a prize, with three hundred and fifty prisoners on board, two or three weeks' sail from port, with only a small crew.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

Here and there in the crowd those people with the clothes that are perfectly all right and yet look odd in some way, the women with the peculiar hats and the—what do you say?—last year's fashions?
— from Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town by Stephen Leacock

“But I got the pathos all right, and you can’t name one great comedian that don’t need pathos more’n he needs anything else.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson