I laugh to see what ignorant persons you are, to take upon yourselves so tedious a journey, and yet are like to have nothing but your travel for your pains.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

Now my good women, the best thing this organization will do for you will be to show you how utterly powerless you are to put down the liquor traffic.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

“Keep near to me, Jacques Three,” cried Defarge; “and do you, Jacques One and Two, separate and put yourselves at the head of as many of these patriots as you can.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

But the shades of colour were beautiful, having a yellow beak, brown feet and claws, nut-coloured wings with purple tips, pale yellow at the back of the neck and head, and emerald colour at the throat, chestnut on the breast and belly.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

But now I will repeat to you what I have already said to that gentleman with the long sword, that Plut is the first in command, I the second; Plut is still alive, and he may play you a trick that will be your ruin, for he is a cunning specimen—you need to stuff his mouth with bank notes.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

“Pollyanna, you ARE the most extraordinary child!
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

"Well, if that's what you mean," said Mr. Moss, looking blankly before him, "we'd better be sold up, and ha' done with it; I must part wi' every head o' stock I've got, to pay you and the landlord too."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

[The direct object ( right ) is modified by the possessive pronoun your and the infinitive to vote .]
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

But Umzilikazi would dismiss them, laughing, and bidding them be patient; yet at their importunity he was not ill-pleased.
— from The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

And yet he could not help commenting, with more or less vague uneasiness of mind, on his chance meeting of Donna Dolores at the Point of Pines yesterday and the summons
— from Gabriel Conroy by Bret Harte

"Unless he is playing you a trick, the sly fellow!"
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

"Howat," she protested, "you are too glum for the comfort of any one near you.
— from The Three Black Pennys: A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer

I prefer your acting to Miss Villeroy's ever so much.
— from A Strange World: A Novel. Volume 1 (of 3) by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

"What a clever pussy you are to be sure."
— from Vera Nevill Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance by Cameron, H. Lovett, Mrs.

From the evidence it appears that this man kept a route-book, and that in it he had the name of each route, the number of the route, where it started from, and where it went to, the name of the contractor, the amount per year, the name of the subcontractor, the amount per year, and then a column showing whether it had been increased, and, if so, how much, and whether it had been expedited, and, if so, how much.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll