{21} Put yourself on the same level as the person to whom you speak, and under penalty of being considered a pedantic idiot, refraining from explaining any expression or word that you may use.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

You have taken it into your head that I mean to pension you off.' 'True, sir,' returned Wegg, still with an obstinate magnanimity.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

You fought and ruled the gang, not because you liked to,—you know you really despised it,—but because the other fellows patted you on the shoulder.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

"Then, Mistress Alice," said Matthew Maule, handing a chair,—gracefully enough, for a craftsman, "will it please you only to sit down, and do me the favor (though altogether beyond a poor carpenter's deserts) to fix your eyes on mine!" Alice complied, She was very proud.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

That our national democratic experiment, principle, and machinery, could triumphantly sustain such a shock, and that the Constitution could weather it, like a ship a storm, and come out of it as sound and whole as before, is by far the most signal proof yet of the stability of that experiment, Democracy, and of those principles, and that Constitution.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

If you say that was possible, you ought to show how it is so, and not amuse us with fabulous old women’s stories.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

I will possess you of that ship and treasure.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Athis, or Atys, is here described as of Indian birth, to distinguish him from the Phrygian youth of the same name, beloved by Cybele, whose story is told by Ovid in the Fasti.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Mrs. Selwyn assumed an air of uncommon sternness, and said, “You will please, gentlemen, either to proceed yourselves, or to suffer us.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"I promised you once to say nothing to my friends about your affairs—about Julian's mother, and I have kept my word.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

You look at the men and women walking past you on the street and they seem to have nothing in common with the men and women you've just seen on the screen.
— from Mars is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long

It was some time before Tom could answer, but he finally burst out with: "Oh! golly, Massa Porter, you ought to see de fun.
— from The Expressman and the Detective by Allan Pinkerton

The depressed state of trade in this and the preceding year, owing to serious apprehensions of war, had caused a great diminution in the importation and manufacture of goods, so that much anxiety prevailed.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

"Will you, please, let me put you on that sofa?
— from A Great Success by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

The numerous fires on the Illinois shore and the peculiar yells of the savages led them to believe that a flat-boat which preceded them had been captured and that the Indians were engaged in their cruel orgies of torture and massacre.
— from Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by William Worthington Fowler

In the name of Bravery and Magnanimity put yourself on the side of the robber in the government halls, the murderer in the [Pg 358] political convention, the libertine in public places, the whole brute force of the police, the constabulary, the court, and the penitentiary, to persecute one poor old man who stood alone against your licensed crime!
— from Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre by Voltairine De Cleyre

Captain (afterwards Sir Arthur) de Capell Brooke [257] collected all accounts he could, during his journey to the North Cape, respecting the sea-serpent, with the following results:— “As I had determined on arriving at the coast to make every inquiry respecting the truth of the accounts which had reached England the preceding year, of the sea-serpent having recently been seen off this part of Norway, I shall simply give the different reports I received during my voyage to the North Cape, leaving others to their own conclusions, and without expressing, at least for the present, my opinion respecting them.
— from Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould

And, once I put you on the ship, the Company will take over." awkes' shoulders drooped.
— from Delayed Action by Charles V. (Charles Vincent) De Vet

If the boat drifts too far from your rock while you are working, it will pull you off the surface, since it has more mass than you do.
— from Anchorite by Randall Garrett

Perhaps you ought to see what I held."
— from The Star Lord by Boyd Ellanby