La Chesnaye, go and see if by rummaging all my pockets you can find forty pistoles; and if you can find them, bring them to me.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

The conventionary resumed:— “Ah, Monsieur Priest, you love not the crudities of the true.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

My dear Howells, I duly received and much pondered your second letter, charming and vivid, from Annisquam; the one, I mean, in reply to mine dispatched immediately on the receipt of your first.
— from The Letters of Henry James (Vol. I) by Henry James

One rash act may precipitate you into a still worse dilemma than the present.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

the city had become repeopled, after many preceding years of flood, ravage, and famine, and contained, it is said, nearly three hundred thousand souls.
— from Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

"I ripit a' my pooches, yin after the ither.
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

Das Ewig-Weibliche [The eternal womanly] is no iridescent fiction but a very definable reality, and means perennial youth.
— from Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by G. Stanley (Granville Stanley) Hall

Then one flitch makes thirty sausages; and so, for one sausage, there would be, at most, half a day and half a blow; and that I consider is a righteous and merciful punishment; you may at once give me the half-blow on my back, and the half-day I will spend next Sunday afternoon in your house, in the corner behind the stove.
— from In the Year '13: A Tale of Mecklenburg Life by Fritz Reuter

And never mind the bit of rent,” added Mrs. Peedles; “you can pay me that later on.”
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome