As for me, I'm going over there, but you, after all, should please wend your way homewards; and I shall also request you to take a message for me to my people.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

This is a specimen of the magical formula which would be used in such a rite: Yawarapu Spell.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

"Tal Hajus knows that you are here, John Carter," said Tars Tarkas, on his return from the jeddak's quarters; "Sarkoja saw and recognized you as we were returning.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

I prithee, take thy fingers from my throat; For, though I am not splenetive and rash, Yet have I in me something dangerous, Which let thy wisdom fear: Hold off thy hand!
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Then slowly climb the many-winding way, And frequent turn to linger as you go, From loftier rocks new loveliness survey, And rest ye at 'Our Lady's House of Woe;' Where frugal monks their little relics show, And sundry legends to the stranger tell: Here impious men have punished been; and lo, Deep in yon cave Honorius long did dwell, In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.
— from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

‘Wait a moment, Lawrence, and let me explain myself; and don’t be so very—I don’t know what to call it—inaccessible as you are.—I know what you think of Jane Wilson; and I believe I know how far you are mistaken in your opinion: you think she is singularly charming, elegant, sensible, and refined: you are not aware that she is selfish, cold-hearted, ambitious, artful, shallow-minded—’ ‘Enough, Markham—enough!’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Here it is, and we never can thank you enough for the patient sowing and reaping you have done," cried Jo, with the loving impetuosity which she never would outgrow.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It was of His Majesty's ordering, this military array of Escorts: a thing solacing the Royal imagination with a look of security and rescue; yet, in reality, creating only alarm, and where there was otherwise no danger, danger without end.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

It seems a curious fact now that in those days he created the impression of a silent and reserved young man—almost taciturn.
— from The Young Emperor, William II of Germany A Study in Character Development on a Throne by Harold Frederic

We are as brave in these days as the Sigurds and Ragnars you sing of!
— from The Little Duke: Richard the Fearless by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Won't you take a seat and rest yourself?"
— from Helen of the Old House by Harold Bell Wright

Then as some present were unwilling to comprehend that spiritual thought so far exceeds natural thought, as to be respectively ineffable, I said to them, "Make the experiment; withdraw into your spiritual society, and think on some subject, and retain your thoughts, and return, and express them before me."
— from The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love To Which is Added The Pleasures of Insanity Pertaining To Scortatory Love by Emanuel Swedenborg

His soul must have burned within him at the contemplation of such a race yielding to these debased Italians.
— from The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World: from Marathon to Waterloo by Creasy, Edward Shepherd, Sir

CHAPTER XV THE SCREAM THAT STARTED A RACE Yet even as the three boys dashed toward the two spruce trees the light went out.
— from The High School Boys' Fishing Trip by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock