" "But you recollect your uncle, I suppose.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Is Rouen yielded up?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Your wine locked up, your butler strolled abroad, Or fish denied (the river yet unthawed),
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

I’m going home quite resigned, you understand, as if all was over.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Entonces el hombre la sigue siempre, hasta que, después de un zapateo final se retiran, y una
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Much should undoubtedly be allowed for national animosity, much for humbled pride and impotent revenge; yet, upon the whole, it is certain, that the same prince, who, in Armenia, had displayed the mild aspect of a legislator, showed himself to the Romans under the stern features of a conqueror.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

In storms an' tempests raise you up, Some cock or cat your rage maun stop, Or, strange to tell!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

As soon as they shall replenish Mr. Grand's hands, I will give you notice, that you may recommence your usual drafts on him; unless the board should provide a separate fund for you, dependent on yourself alone, which I have strongly and repeatedly pressed on them, in order to remove the indecency of suffering your drafts to pass through any intermediate hand for payment.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

The primeval, physically robust, though rude yet uncorrupted races, that, during the first centuries of our reckoning, crowded down from the North and East like a gigantic ocean wave, and swamped the worn-out universal Empire of Rome, where Christianity had gradually been superimposing itself as master, resisted with all their might the ascetic doctrines of the Christian preachers.
— from Woman under socialism by August Bebel

“I will come again, and receive you unto myself,” said the Saviour, John 14:5.
— from A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Sylvester Bliss

“Do you intend to take any action regarding your unauthorized imprisonment?”
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

"Washington, get some of the remedy you used before.
— from Through the Air to the North Pole Or, The Wonderful Cruise of the Electric Monarch by Roy Rockwood

“But, if she had done so, of course I should have rung you up,” said Sheila quickly.
— from The Stolen Statesman: Being the Story of a Hushed Up Mystery by William Le Queux

But this case seems to be solved by an assertion of some, that affirm that the Devil do not or cannot appear in the shape of a godly person, to do hurt: others affirm the contrary, and say that he can and often have so done, of [ii.539] which they give many instances for proof of what they say; which if granted, the case remains yet unsolved, and yet the very hinge upon which that weighty case depends.
— from Salem Witchcraft, Volumes I and II With an Account of Salem Village and a History of Opinions on Witchcraft and Kindred Subjects by Charles Wentworth Upham

"I used to know you when you were alive; but now that you're gone, I don't expect to recognize you until we meet in a better world."
— from Elbow-Room: A Novel Without a Plot by Charles Heber Clark

And perhaps soon, not just yet, but soon, you will come and see my work, if I ring you up?
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Aunt Henrietta goes to all the fashionable hotels, and dresses exquisitely, so if you can screw a little money out of that old flint of an uncle of yours, so much the better; but even if you are shabby, I dare say I can manage to rig you up.—Your affectionate friend, Mabel Lushington.”
— from Three Girls from School by L. T. Meade