So I’ll stay and see you through.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

There might be not bad policy in such a stroke, young man.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

" Achilles drew a deep sigh and said, "You know it; why tell you what you know well already?
— from The Iliad by Homer

He was frighted even to the marrow, and was minded to give order for your instant enlargement, and that you be clothed in fine raiment and lodged as befitted one so great; but then came Merlin and spoiled all; for he persuaded the king that you are mad, and know not whereof you speak; and said your threat is but foolishness and idle vaporing.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

He had made the Wars of the Succession and Seven Years with great credit in the Empress’s service, was of a stern character, seldom appeared at Court, except when ceremony called him, but lived almost alone in his wing of the palace, where he devoted himself to the severest studies, being a great astronomer and chemist.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

She smiled sadly and said, "You are in my heart."
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.”
— from Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend by Aesop

“Try starting a hymn, Jake,” said a slender young man at his right elbow, whose face showed a color more intimately connected with the contents of his canteen than the heat of the day.
— from The Red Acorn by John McElroy

From your window, so admirably small, you will see at what hour Madame comes aboard.
— from The Inn at the Red Oak by Latta Griswold

He is accompanied by a servant about sixteen years of age, speaks English without any accent, and passed under the alias of Ramornie.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

He called for volunteers, and was grieved that it was the lads of sixteen and seventeen years that were always the first to offer.
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

At last he rose, and, standing stiffly erect, slipped a small yellow photograph which he had been holding in his hand into a worn leather case.
— from Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

“Just get back to the railroad station and send your story,” he urged.
— from Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

I had no part in the matter; nevertheless I rejoice that my house has had the honor of serving you as a refuge from such as seek your destruction.”
— from Perpetua. A Tale of Nimes in A.D. 213 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

But it was not until 1872 that it was happily solved, after seven years' labour, by the comparative anatomist who surpassed all other experts of this science in the second half of the nineteenth century by the richness of his empirical knowledge and the acuteness and depth of his philosophic speculations.
— from The Evolution of Man — Volume 2 by Ernst Haeckel