“Now, I return to this young fellow.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Whether former feelings were to be renewed must be brought to the proof; former times must undoubtedly be brought to the recollection of each; they could not but be reverted to; the year of their engagement could not but be named by him, in the little narratives or descriptions which conversation called forth.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

My reconcilement to the Yahoo kind in general might not be so difficult, if they would be content with those vices and follies only which nature has entitled them to.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

I dimly recall through these years a room in cozy disorder, strewn with music—music on the floor and music on the chairs, music in the air as the master rushed to the piano now and again to make some memory melodious—some allusion real.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

I thought it right to tell you, because you went on as you always do, never looking just where you are, and treading in the wrong place.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But if the blow falls which is forever hanging over me, then I should wish you to read this, that you may know straight from me how far I have been to blame.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Reflect,—you are old; you have not long to live—I am ready to take your sins upon my soul.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

we found the additional laiding which we had been compelled to put on board rendered our vessels extreemly inconvenient to mannage and in short reather unsafe in the event of high winds; I therefore left Capt. C. with the two perogues to proceede up the river on the N. side, and with the two canoes and some additional hands passed over the river above the rapids to the Y-eh-huh village in order to purchase one or more canoes.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The old aunt received the two young people in her corner, but seemed desirous of hiding her adoration for Hélène and inclined rather to show her fear of Anna Pávlovna.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Have respect, therefore, to your own consciences and to public opinion.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

This English book, large and flat, shows with the aid of the camera, the merlin pursuing her quarry, young tawny owls in a disused magpie’s nest, female noctules and their young, the male kestrel brooding, and a male buzzard that has just brought a rabbit to the younglings in the nest.
— from When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

He shall behold thee with such kind regard, That 'twixt ye two, the contrary to that Which 'falls 'twixt other men, the granting shall Forerun the asking."
— from Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part II. Italian by Oscar Kuhns

She is related to the young lady who would not allow the Christian Observer to remain in her room over night.
— from The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. by Various

But I am ready to think you do but jest, because you smiled. CHR.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

I am rejoiced to think you find it still worth consulting.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Bonaparte walked quickly through the rooms, tapping the yellow top of his boot with a whip he held in his hand.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

A Mystery Canius Junius when walking to the scaffold said to his friends: ‘You ask me if the soul is immortal; I am going to find out, and if I can, I will return to tell you.’
— from Metapsychical Phenomena: Methods and Observations by J. (Joseph) Maxwell

I promised once to be true to you, I gave you my heart, and I have remained, and I will remain, true to you; my heart is yours, and I can never recover it and give it to another.'
— from Mehalah: A Story of the Salt Marshes by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

He referred to that yachting cruise on which he had ultimately started alone.
— from Double Harness by Anthony Hope

Do you remember the time you had in class over that sonnet?"
— from A Pessimist in Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird