Pray you tell him, I am his Fortunes Vassall, and I send him
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

However, perhaps you think he is a good shot, and can kill me; it’s on the cards,” observed the colonel.
— from The Two Brothers by Honoré de Balzac

Here is a body of people numbering millions, entirely repudiating physicians, yet their health is as good, if not better, than those who continually take drugs.
— from Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World by Clifton R. (Clifton Rodman) Wooldridge

“What possessed you to happen in, anyhow?”
— from Winning the Wilderness by Margaret Hill McCarter

Break the pole?" yelled Teddy, half in anger, half in pain.
— from The Circus Boys on the Plains; Or, The Young Advance Agents Ahead of the Show by Edgar B. P. Darlington

"Say Polly, you tell her I aim to have her do the callin' off—you hear?
— from The Wiving of Lance Cleaverage by Alice MacGowan

Pray you, tell him I am his fortune's vassal and I send him
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

He would persuade you that he is a knight-errant of purity.
— from American Sketches by Charles Whibley

Captain Lawton was too much engrossed in conversation to suffer his eyes to indulge in their usual wandering; and the peddler, perceiving by the voices that the enemy he most feared had passed, yielded to his impatience, and stood erect, in order to make greater progress.
— from The Spy: Condensed for use in schools by James Fenimore Cooper