"Of course it will," retorted madame Wang, "but they should get it over as soon as they can, so as to allow your elder Brother and your Sister-in-law to have rest; besides, their hearts are not at ease."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

To-morrow I shall seek another lodging, so as to afford your tender conscience some relief.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[377] We cannot say that this prophecy, in which the change of [Pg 180] the ancient priesthood is foretold with so great plainness, was fulfilled in Samuel; for although Samuel was not of another tribe than that which had been appointed by God to serve at the altar, yet he was not of the sons of Aaron, whose offspring was set apart that the priests might be taken out of it.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

10 And to shew his envy further: Here he chargeth you with murther: Says, although that at your sight, He must all his torches light; Though your either cheek discloses 15 Mingled baths of milk and roses;
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

If you tell him you've sent us, we'll each of us give you such a thrashing as you'll remember.”
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

His remaining behind and his French name were really the only two points which could suggest suspicion; but, as a matter of fact, I did not begin work until he had gone, and his people are of Huguenot extraction, but as English in sympathy and tradition as you and I are.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

He said also to a young man, who showed him a fine buckler he had, that he was very proud of, “It is a very fine buckler indeed, but a Roman soldier ought to repose greater confidence in his right hand than in his left.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Do you think that I would respond to such a trifle, and yet be ignorant of his death?”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

This is simply a theory, as yet unverified by any evidence.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

or, if you had taken up some smaller treatise, with the hope of avoiding these perplexities, you had always found it so meager and superficial, as to afford you very little satisfaction.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

To another he said, after a scene of argumentative violence, "Pray, pay some attention to accommodate yourself a little more to my humour.
— from Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volume III. by Walter Scott

"Well then, sir, as true as you are there, he said that your honour was a very kind gentleman, and your word was worth any other ten men's in most things; but where it might be to get a friend out of trouble, and, for aught he knew, foe either, why then, he thought your honour might fib a bit."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various

Here am I ready to sit, and there are you not ready to paint me.
— from After Dark by Wilkie Collins

" "I do think of you very often," I said, "and talk about you to Vivace.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

I was told that originally this used to be a human sacrifice, and that a young boy or girl was thrown up into the air and torn to pieces by the eunuchs as he or she fell, but that of late years slaves had got scarce or manners milder, and a white cock was now substituted."
— from Moon Lore by Timothy Harley