Come, speak; avow freely that you accuse him!”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But I’ll amerce you with so strong a fine That you shall all repent the loss of mine.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

I shall always feel that you are a benefactor.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

This Cennino, in the first chapter of his said book, speaking of himself, uses these very words: "I, Cennino di Drea Cennini, of Colle di Valdelsa, was instructed in the said art for twelve years by Agnolo di Taddeo of Florence, my master, who learnt the said art from Taddeo, his father, who was held at baptism by Giotto and was his disciple for four-and-twenty years; which Giotto transmuted the art of painting from Greek into Latin, and brought it to the modern manner, and had it for certain more perfected than anyone ever had it."
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

Some ither day. H2 anchor Third Epistle To J. Lapraik Guid speed and furder to you, Johnie, Guid health, hale han's, an' weather bonie; Now, when ye're nickin down fu' cannie The staff o' bread, May ye ne'er want a stoup o'
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

And yet more noble, it seems to pass from itself, and to enter the memory, and to hover in a silvery transformation there, until the outward book is but a body and its soul and spirit are flown to you, and possess your memory like a spirit.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The skinny hands were clasped upon the breast; two lustreless tufts of hair stuck to the skull; the skin was brown and sunken; it stretched tightly over the cheek bones and made them stand out sharply; the crisp dead eyes were deep in the sockets; the nostrils were painfully prominent, the end of the nose being gone; the lips had shriveled away from the yellow teeth: and brought down to us through the circling years, and petrified there, was a weird laugh a full century old!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Aksinya attended to the shop, and from the yard could be heard the cJlink of bottles and of money, her laughter and loud talk, and the anger of customers whom she had offended; and at the same time it could be seen that the secret sale of vodka was already going on in the shop.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

why didn’t you say at first that you was willing to come down handsome?’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Valentine, with her woman’s instinct, guessed that Morrel would be Monte Cristo’s second, and from the young man’s well-known courage and his great affection for the count, she feared that he would not content himself with the passive part assigned to him.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"Why, sir," quoth Jonathan, "I'll get your horse and go with you to the main road, sir, and from there, you can't miss your way back to the house you came from this afternoon."
— from The Life of General Francis Marion by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

renown'd among the tuneful throng For gentle lays, and joyous nuptial song, Think not your softest numbers can display The matchless glories of this blissful day; The joys are such as far transcend your rage, When tender youth has wedded stooping age.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Alexander Pope

He went at once to Wyndham’s study, and found that young athlete arraying himself in his cricket flannels.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed

"If you have anything you want to say, and feel that you must say it or bust," Jerry remarked, "just come up alongside of me and whisper it.
— from In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure in Colorado by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Sir : I have to inform you that the Congress of the United States, by a resolution of the 28th of January, 1864, an attested copy of which is herewith sent, offered you their thanks for your generous gift to the nation during the last war, of the steamer "Vanderbilt," and requested the President to cause a gold medal to be struck and forwarded to you, commemorative of that gift.
— from The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876 by J. F. (Joseph Florimond) Loubat

“Never do you mind, father; yours are now safe, and for that you have to thank Philip Vanderdecken.”
— from The Phantom Ship by Frederick Marryat

I will send a friend to you to-morrow."
— from The Senator's Favorite by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.