For my part I have not forgot what you told me at your return, and so put you in mind of it, that you may not be long before you acquit yourself of your promise.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

no quiero calificar por respeto al Santo Patriarca y a la Iglesia que le adora.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

The officer ordered the men to loose the prisoner and return his sword to him; then bowed respectfully, and said— “Please you, sir, to follow me.”
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

It's rather a solemn promise, you see.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

oh, Ben!” “There,” said Ben, grasping Polly, bandage and all; “now we're all right; and say, Polly, you're a brick!”
— from Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney

Three means of determination of the average metal content of standing ore are in use—Previous Yield, Test-treatment Runs, and Sampling. Previous Yield.
— from Principles of Mining: Valuation, Organization and Administration by Herbert Hoover

For you have no foreshadow of an inevitable termination to your rapture, and so practically your night has no limit.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

Now, my brethren and sisters, I know whereof I speak with reference to these matters, for I have come down through every atom of it, at least from the expulsion from the city of Nauvoo; in February, 1846, I stood upon the bank of the river and saw President Young and the Twelve apostles, and as many of the people of Nauvoo as had teams or could possibly migrate, cross the Mississippi {633} river on the ice.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

To-day I returned, and she pointed you out to me as the villain—as Mr Ranby—a serpent crawling here to poison under an assumed name.”
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

“I have a rope and some poles, you see,” said Mr Nugent; “they may be useful.”
— from Digby Heathcote: The Early Days of a Country Gentleman's Son and Heir by William Henry Giles Kingston

"Hadn't we better say where she is at once?" said Rose, anxiously; "somehow policemen—" "You'd better look out, Rose," said Murtagh, mockingly; "you'll be taken up before you know where you are and clapped into prison.
— from Castle Blair: A Story of Youthful Days by Flora L. (Flora Louisa) Shaw