“What stupidity are you referring to?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

'It is Ludovico, who has discovered,' said Annette: 'but for mercy's sake, madam, don't tell the Signor, and you shall know all directly.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

If you do take it, pass it on as soon as you have filled your glass.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it; And if it stand, as you yourself still do, Within the eye of honour, be assur'd
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

I should advise you to appeal to Rumyántsev through Prince Golítsyn.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

that I sometimes, at odd moments—don't laugh, John, please.' Nothing should induce John to do it, when she asked him not to do it. '—That I sometimes think, John, I feel a little serious.' 'Are you too much alone, my darling?' 'O dear, no, John!
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

'It seems so selfish in me to regret it,' trying to smile, 'and yet he is lost to me, and I am so lonely.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

"You've got a bond for it, I reckon," he said; "and you've had your five per cent, kin or no kin."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“I only gave you a few caresses, for which I am now sorry, as you are frightened of me, and persist in locking your door.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Such were your forefathers, and their sons are ye.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: 05:012:007
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 5: Deuteronomy by Anonymous

And between you and me, I do not think a little country place, such as you have described Dambourne End to be, is quite a suitable place to which to take a young wife who has spent the greater part of her life in London, and has until lately mixed a good bit in society.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 695 April 21, 1877. by Various

"Aileen, I don't know that I can make it plain to you, but—a man's love is so different from a woman's that, sometimes, I think such a statement as you have just made is so full of flaws that it amounts to sophistry; but there is no need to discuss that.—Let me ask you if you can endure to stay on with Mrs. Champney for a few months longer?
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

Then he rubbed down the buckskin, melted some snow for a drink for the horse, gave him a feed of oats, and stretched himself on the opposite side of the fire from Tacoma, saying: "You're on your good behavior, for the minute you start anything you lose your bet on the chinook.
— from Bulldog Carney by William Alexander Fraser

I should be happy to have your steamer and your barges take position near the point, where you can see the proceedings."
— from Stem to Stern; or, building the boat by Oliver Optic

But what ever since that night?" "Why, I suppose you come over the poor thing somehow, as you seem minded to do over every one as you can.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley

"Bring me hither the wine, and I will gladly drink of it, nor waste one drop in oblation; but I must not descend to the shore, and you must be silent concerning me, for my tutor offers large rewards to any one who will disclose where I hide myself.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

“She was, as sure as you live,” replied Ben, who [Pg 81] failed to see that he was heaping coals of fire upon her inflammable nature.
— from The Life and Adventures of Ben Hogan, the Wickedest Man in the World by Ben (Benedict) Hogan

a big trout springs at your fly, and, after making a vain struggling, splashing, and plunging for a while, is infallibly landed in the net and thence into the boat!
— from The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh; and the Irish Sketch Book by William Makepeace Thackeray

“They want everything to happen just so; even a thief must be a big man if he’s in a story; but I don’t believe anybody ever stole anything yet without getting into trouble about it.”
— from Little Mr. Thimblefinger and His Queer Country by Joel Chandler Harris