Perhaps you do not care for that one: I think you will like this better.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

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— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

What's the good of being in Parliament, he said, if you must pay your debts?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

y la indignación, se descubría al hombre de pensamientos profundos y de acción rápida y decidida.
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

Whereupon, 'So God be mine aid,' quoth Roussillon; 'I do indeed believe it you, nor do I marvel if that please you, dead, which, alive, pleased you more than aught else.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Dagúhub kaáyu nang ímung pagtambul, Your drumming is very loud.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Let us entreat, by honour of his name Whom worthily you would have now succeed, And in the Capitol and Senate's right, Whom you pretend to honour and adore, That you withdraw you and abate your strength, Dismiss your followers, and, as suitors should, Plead your deserts in peace and humbleness.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“You saw only that bearded and that long-haired man?” “And Panchaud.” “You didn’t see a little imp of a dandy prowling about the premises?” “No.” “Nor a big lump of matter, resembling an elephant in the Jardin des Plantes?” “No.” “Nor a scamp with the air of an old red tail?” “No.” “As for the fourth, no one sees him, not even his adjutants, clerks, and employees.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"You refused an honest prince; you did not appreciate the rose and the nightingale; but you did not mind kissing a swineherd for his toys; you have no one but yourself to blame!"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

His Gothic harp has o’er you rung; The bard you deigned to praise, your deathless names has sung.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Perhaps you don't believe it.'
— from The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Walter Besant

And you shall have paid your debt to that monster.
— from Calvary: A Novel by Octave Mirbeau

—Desmerecerías a mis ojos, te despojarías de tu aureola de pureza y de prestigio, si dieras crédito a tal necedad. 116 —Oyéndote calificar de ateo, y sin poder convencerme de lo contrario por ninguna razón, he protestado desde el fondo de mi alma contra tal calumnia.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“Now see here, Hiram,” he said at length, “there's no use of your putting on airs and pretending you don't understand this thing.
— from Lifted Masks; stories by Susan Glaspell

"Bless and preserve your dear lordship, Jerry won't take no chance, as I always said, being advised by the cards.
— from The Red Window by Fergus Hume

Perhaps you didn't realize it, but my father was striking at me when he referred to your sermon, and spiritual control—and in other things he said when you were talking about the settlement-house.
— from The Inside of the Cup — Complete by Winston Churchill