"With such a man as you in my house I have no fears for its stability; but why this appearance of poverty?
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

'Father,' answered the lady, 'you shall have whatsoever pleaseth you, so but it be in my power; but what can the like of me that may befit such a man as yourself?' 'Madam,' replied the abbot 'you can do no less for me than that which I undertake to do for you; for that, like as I am disposed to do that which is to be your weal and your solacement, even so can you do that which will be the saving and assainment of my life.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

It must have been a terrible blow.” The Sage shrugged his shoulders. “Doesn’t such a misfortune affect you?” asked the young wife.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Good Lord, was there ever such a man as you?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

O daughter, daughter, is it possible thou shouldst be my child, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh, and as I may say, another me, and yet transgress the most minute particle of severe virtue?
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Does any one suppose that I would have taken such a monster as you by any other name?" "And a clergyman too," observed Lady Chettam with approbation.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

So he began to stammer some excuses; But words are not enough in such a matter, Although you borrow'd all that e'er the muses Have sung, or even a Dandy's dandiest chatter, Or all the figures Castlereagh abuses; Just as a languid smile began to flatter
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Your life was safe—nobody in these kingdoms but Merlin would venture to touch such a magician as you without ten thousand men at his back—I had nothing to think of but how to put preparations in the best trim against your coming.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

This is all that I can tell you of myself: so that Persæus and Philonides may give up telling these stories about me: and you may judge of me on my own merits.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

I have as strong a motive as you; my father—oh!
— from Brown of Moukden: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang

The Mourning Dove breeds in many localities from the southern tier of Canadian Provinces southward throughout the United States and Mexico, and yet everywhere over this vast range the birds are the same in size and colour.
— from The Bird Study Book by T. Gilbert (Thomas Gilbert) Pearson

Kitty puffed away a little with a wry face, and then handed it to Hansgeorge, saying, "There, take it: you have kept your word like a man, and now you may smoke as much as you please.
— from Black Forest Village Stories by Berthold Auerbach

Along the west coast the weather is now [May 1872] as mild and May-like as you could wish; the swallow twitters gaily in the sunlight, and when he ceases his zig-zag flight for a moment to rest on chimney-top or house-ridge, he sings a gladsome song, low and faint indeed, and frequently lost on that account in the general chorus, but exceedingly sweet and musical, as you will find if you give it the attention it merits; while in the distance you hear the cheery notes of the cuckoo, wild and startling as yet, as they burst suddenly upon the ear from out the woodland glade or from the old rowan tree that finds root room, you wonder how, in yonder crevice in the rock above the foaming waterfall, but soon to become familiar as the season advances, and pressed upon your notice whether you will or no, and at all sorts of impossible times and places, by the truant schoolboy’s oft-repeated, though rarely successful, attempts at imitation.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

If ever she should forsake me it won't be for such a man as you.
— from Out for Business; or, Robert Frost's Strange Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Sir , 'Your Ingratitude for the many Kindnesses I have done you, shall not make me unthankful for the Good you have done me, in letting me see there is such a Man as you in the World.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

You shall have everything you want,—money, bright shillings, as many as you wish.
— from Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson

"Oh, no, smoke as much as you please," replied the girl.
— from A Young Inventor's Pluck; or, The Mystery of the Willington Legacy by Edward Stratemeyer

"No," cried he, clasping me in his arms, and smiling at my apostrophe, "you shall find substance and substantial joys too here."
— from The Sylph, Volume I and II by Cavendish, Georgiana Spencer, Duchess of Devonshire