"Sweetheart, have I vexed you?
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Yell, cheer, and swear fidelity until you are out of breath if it pleases you so to do; I like to see and hear it, for what is it after all but froth; you are all in a ferment just now, and it is best that this noisy gas should have its vent; you will soon sober down again, and then—we shall see.
— from The Pirate Island: A Story of the South Pacific by Harry Collingwood

Still, he is very young; one can hardly tell what he may become.'
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Of whose answere so soone as we be certified, we purpose to signifie his intention vnto you by our letters.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

I will show how I value you by sparing your life if you will swear by your honour to take no vengeance upon any person who has been with us on this occasion.
— from The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga by Unknown

my ballads, my songs, how I 've yearn'd For the time to collect you and edit A book that perhaps would have earn'd, Not a name, but a quantum of credit.
— from Carols of Cockayne The Third Edition, 1874 by Henry S. (Henry Sambrooke) Leigh

Assuming that Cleopatra was all that Shakespeare has made her for us, a human being of whom it could be truly said "Age cannot wither nor custom stale her infinite variety," yet the Egyptian was born to the purple, a queen recognized by her nation, and entitled to rule from the first.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

“Alice,” he said, “have I vexed you?”
— from The Half-Hearted by John Buchan