Before going she expressed all sorts of kind wishes; and at the door turned and said: 'And perhaps, sir, as the room is big and draughty it might be well to have one of those big screens put round your bed at night—though, truth to tell, I would die myself if I were to be so shut in with all kinds of—of "things", that put their heads round the sides, or over the top, and look on me!'
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

As much as the public affairs are bettered by your exploit, so much are your own the worse, and the better you behave yourself in it, ‘tis so much the worse for yourself; and it will be no new thing, nor, peradventure, without some colour of justice, if the same person ruin you who set you on work.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

“Now proceed till you meet the stag, and as he rouses himself from slumber, say:— “Ho, Crown Prince with your Speckled Princess, Rouse you in haste and slip on King Solomon’s royal breast ornament.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

XX Rumores.—Temores Al día siguiente de esta disputa lamentable, corrieron por toda Orbajosa de casa en casa, de círculo en círculo, desde el Casino a la botica, y desde el paseo de las 10 Descalzas a la puerta de Baidejos, rumores varios sobre Pepe Rey y su conducta.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“Stay a moment, your excellency,” said Peppino, rising; “you still owe me something.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

El pueblo se prosternó respetuosamente, y ya
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

I said: "Please, Rena, you've been through a tough time and I don't want you wandering around.
— from Preferred Risk by Edson McCann

Ye glittering towns, with wealth and splendour crown'd; Ye fields, where summer spreads profusion round; Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale; Ye bending swains, that dress the flowery vale; For me your tributary stores combine: Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

Gordon turned away his face, and Sir Peter resumed: "You want to get into Parliament; very natural ambition for a clever young fellow.
— from Kenelm Chillingly — Volume 06 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"But, sir," pleaded Rupert, "you advised the present course to be adopted."
— from Mortomley's Estate: A Novel. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Riddell, J. H., Mrs.

Yellow Adder's Tongue; Trout Lily; Dog-tooth "Violet" Erythronium americanum Flower --Solitary, pale russet yellow, rarely tinged with purple, slightly fragrant, 1 to 2 in.
— from Wild Flowers Worth Knowing by Neltje Blanchan

A fico 159 for your small poetic ravers, Your Hunts, your Tennysons, your Milnes, and these!
— from The Book of Ballads Eleventh Edition, 1870 by Martin, Theodore, Sir

All this is very beautiful: moonshine and ocean's tide, groups of trees and wooded vallies, and the steep precipitous rocks; yet one must not admire it too much; it is after all an old tale, and one must not appear too new to the world.
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. I. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall

The white man says to the black, "You are not my equal because you are black;" and the black man can with the same propriety, reply, "You are not my equal because you are white."
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll

As they parted at the door, Edmonds said paternally: “Remember, young fellow, a Park Row reputation is written on glass with a wet finger.
— from Success: A Novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams

Have you seen Professor Radium yet? I should say Mr. Outwood.
— from Mike by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse