I love its furious delight, The crowd and merriment and light, The ladies, their fantastic dress, Also their feet—yet ne'ertheless Scarcely in Russia can ye find Three pairs of handsome female feet;
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Alleheiligen, though small, is rather celebrated, you know.”
— from The Princess Virginia by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Every man, no matter how well off, gets pushed at times, when he cannot turn his securities into ready cash, you know."
— from Out for Business; or, Robert Frost's Strange Career by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

An Englishman, and still more an English woman , very reluctantly hands over her keys to a French gen d'arme, who, be your presence never so imposing, ruthlessly capsizes your careful and thoughtful stowage, whilst you angrily or impatiently watch your travelling sanctum pried into by dirty-handed, over-zealous officials.
— from Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta by W. Cope Devereux

Then: "I wonder if two people have ever sat here before, as we're sitting now?" "Many a time," said I. "Runaway couples, you know.
— from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

he exclaimed, recognising her; ‘or shall I rather call you by the name you’ve already made so famous?’
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

Hector’s shop is Right Centre; you might sign your work on it with an L. If you cut a man up, you do it anonymously; if you praise him, it is just as well to put your name to your article.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

"You should not storm in, rudely, children; you disturb us.
— from A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable