She then said, madam, pray let me know when you will be pleased have your chocolate ready in the morning.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

"It was a maxim of Captain Swosser's," said Mrs. Badger, "speaking in his figurative naval manner, that when you make pitch hot, you cannot make it too hot; and that if you only have to swab a plank, you should swab it as if Davy Jones were after you.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Not in them , poor helpless young creatures—afflicted with temperaments made out of butter; which butter was commanded to get into contact with fire and be melted .
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

I do not perceive how you could express yourself more warmly.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

from what place and people have you come?
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

"You can teach me, and then when we play Hamlet, you can be Laertes, and we'll make a fine thing of the fencing scene."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

I conjure you, by that which you profess (Howeer you come to know it) answer me: Though you untie the winds and let them fight Against the churches, though the yesty waves Confound and swallow navigation up, Though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down, Though castles topple on their warders' heads, Though palaces and pyramids do slope Their heads to their foundations, though the treasure Of nature's germaines tumble all together Even till destruction sicken, answer me
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Banded together with your friends from Hellas, not for the fleece, but to seize my sceptre and royal power have ye come hither.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

She just stepped into the schoolroom on her return from ordering dinner in the housekeeper’s room, bade me good-morning, stood for two minutes by the fire, said a few words about the weather and the ‘rather rough’ journey I must have had yesterday; petted her youngest child—a boy of ten—who had just been wiping his mouth and hands on her gown, after indulging in some savoury morsel from the housekeeper’s store; told me what a sweet, good boy he was; and then sailed out, with a self-complacent smile upon her face: thinking, no doubt, that she had done quite enough for the present, and had been delightfully condescending into the bargain.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The tents of the nobility were prodigally decorated with all kinds of the richest stuffs and dazzled the eye with their magnificence, nor could the grave looks and grave speeches of King Ferdinand prevent his youthful cavaliers from vying with each other in the splendor of their dresses and caparisons on all occasions of parade and ceremony.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving

I should have been better pleased had you confessed it!
— from Thelma by Marie Corelli

They can't spot 'em without planes, and there are no planes here yet.' Crash!
— from On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles by T. C. (Thomas Charles) Bridges

He had, nevertheless, permitted the girl to make the acquaintance of his legitimate children, and had gone so far as to put his youngest child, Charlotte Pradier, at the same school, when he sent his two sons to Auteuil to a boarding-school.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

This view is confirmed by the following odd-sounding statements of Luther’s: Among Christians the sword can have no place, “hence you cannot make use of it on or among Christians, who have no need of it”; still the world “cannot and may not do without it” (this power); in other words, as Christians, both subjects and rulers suffer injustice gladly according to the Gospel, but, for the sake of their neighbours and for the keeping of order in the world, both favour the use of force.
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

"Pray Heaven your carelessness of the morrow have reason in it!
— from Judith Shakespeare: Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black

When Oxford was sent to a foreign prison, his youthful countess was left in poverty.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar

Hence the sway she has gained over countless hearts, each absorbed in its own dream or shadowed by its own regrets, that glow again in the kindling atmosphere of song, which gushes from a soul over which no overmastering passion has yet cast a gloom, and whose transparent waters no agitation of conflicting desires has ever made turbid and restless.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVII, No. 1, July 1850 by Various

Soon it became quite the regular thing for a British sailor to provide his Yankee chum with half his beer-tickets, and, as many of the days were sweltering hot, you may believe they were appreciated.
— from Stories of the Ships by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman

The central plaza, with many trees and hedges trimmed in the form of animals, had in its center the statue of the priest Hidalgo y Costilla, the "father of Mexican independence."
— from Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond by Harry Alverson Franck