Consider yourself as in your own house, and to put yourself still more at your ease, pray accompany me to the apartments of M. de Morcerf, he whom I wrote from Rome an account of the services you rendered me, and to whom I announced your promised visit, and I may say that both the count and countess anxiously desire to thank you in person.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Natheless, I hold your excuse for good and honourable and am ready to see that which it shall please you show me, albeit I believe you without proof.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

They took from their baggage a little book inscribed, “In such a year, on such a day, at such an hour, in such a place, you shall meet a Holy Man.”
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

I would lay a good wager that where they say in Italian piace you say in Spanish place, and where they say piu you say mas, and you translate su by arriba and giu by abajo."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Go back to your beloved stage and act the miserable ditch-water plays you so much admire!
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Gali-gali kunyit Dapat sa-jari dua jari Chhari-chhari padang yang sulit Menurunkan anak bidadari.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Gali-gali sĕrei Dapat sa-jari dua jari, Chhari-chhari padang yang sukor, Menurunkan anak bidadari.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

my dear, but then if you had been very miserable, I should have pitied you so much, and loved you so heartily for being in love,” said Rosamond, still laughing— “Oh! Rosamond,” continued Caroline, whose mind was now too highly wrought for raillery, “is love to be trifled with?
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 07 Patronage [part 1] by Maria Edgeworth

May nothing in this mournful song Too much take off your thoughts from time, For joy should fill your vernal prime, And peace your summer mild and long.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald

‘Papa has two or three times expressed a fear that since Mr. Smith paid you so much attention he will perhaps have made an impression on your mind which will interfere with your comfort.
— from Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle by Clement King Shorter

I admire the beautiful pencil you sent me, and I think I shall find it very useful.
— from Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life by Amos Lawrence

When I threatened your tropical cooling views with the facts of the physicists, you snubbed me and the facts sweetly, over and over again; and now, because a scarecrow of x+y has been raised on the selfsame facts, you boo-boo.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

“I won’t please you so much as to leave it alone.
— from The Rifle Rangers by Mayne Reid

Then this McNally came along and set up you and Williams to a dinner at the Hotel Tremain and paid you some money and gave you this fool contract, to get you to vote the Tillman City proxies his way.”
— from The Short Line War by Samuel Merwin

'Nothing, dear Philippa,' said Zoe, half-turning round, 'would please you so much as to hear Armorel play.
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

‘Ah, my son, my son,’ cried the queen, ‘it is the thought that I must part from you which causes me such grief; for before you were born we vowed a vow to St. James that when your eighteenth birthday was passed you should make a pilgrimage to his shrine, and very soon you will be eighteen, and I shall lose you.
— from The Crimson Fairy Book by Andrew Lang