Take {179} a room at a hotel in the principal cities if you will, and see all that your guide book commands you to seek, and then start on your own tour of investigation, and believe me you will enjoy your independent walks and chats with the villagers and peasants, infinitely more than your visits dictated by others.
— 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

But now a big globe came drifting past within a score of yards of them.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There was a poor woman died here but a little while ago, scores of years older than I am, whom I found by chance, lying on the wet earth.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

"A little while ago, when the whole company devised something original, you observed that it would be better to quote an old device; and now that we have quoted an old motto, you again maintain that it's coarse and inappropriate!
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

"Yes—I caught sight of you on the way back, at the station.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

There was no one in the cell but Father Païssy, reading the Gospel in solitude over the coffin, and the young novice Porfiry, who, exhausted by the previous night's conversation and the disturbing incidents of the day, was sleeping the deep sound sleep of youth on the floor of the other room.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Sheweth , 'That it was your Petitioner's Misfortune to walk to Hackney Church last Sunday, where to his great Amazement he met with a Soldier of your own training: she furls a Fan, recovers a Fan, and goes through the whole Exercise of it to Admiration.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

But nearly always you find it is some one you ought to have known, and your hiding the fact of your forgetfulness saves you from the rather rude and stupid situation of blankly declaring: "I don't remember you."
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

"In the shed over yonder, on the verge of the Heath," said Dan, jerking his head over his left shoulder; "but I daresay you wonder why I asked you to see me, Mr. Penn?"
— from The Mystery Queen by Fergus Hume

So you see, Jeanette, all is shaping well.—And now, my dear girl, you have a story of your own to tell me, and my whole attention shall be at your disposal.
— from The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay

Would you kindly ask the person sitting opposite your office to come up to me?...
— from The Crystal Stopper by Maurice Leblanc

You mean to give the living of Briarsleigh to the son of your old tutor."
— from Englefield Grange; or, Mary Armstrong's Troubles by Paull, H. B., Mrs.

I take it you're prepared to carry out a search on your own, Tom?"
— from Tom Swift and the Electronic Hydrolung by Appleton, Victor, II

Our honored Governor and his son of Connecticut had been near a score of years on this soil before Charles I. was beheaded.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

At first he refused to sit on the same cushion with such a godless foreigner, as I am, gave in, however, at last, had a good opportunity at the last station of showing the world how many clever processes of manipulation he had learnt from you and your father, in his treatment of Oropastes' wounded brother; he reached Babylon at last safe and sound, and there, as we could not get sight of you, owing to the melancholy poisoning of your country-woman, I succeeded in obtaining him a lodging in the royal palace itself.
— from An Egyptian Princess — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

And the wind blows steady and strong; Let the splash of your oars the measure keep, As we row the old boat along.
— from Beadle's Dime Song Book No. 1 A Collection of New and Popular Comic and Sentimental Songs. by Various

Adolphe remembers an English proverb, which says, "Don't have a newspaper or a country seat of your own: there are plenty of idiots who will have them for you."
— from Petty Troubles of Married Life, First Part by Honoré de Balzac