“It is so that I may put you upon the first page of my tomorrow’s edition, young man, and I publish eighty thousand.
— from A Romance of Youth — Complete by François Coppée

Your father said that I might pay you five francs a day for incidentals and pocket money.
— from Rollo in Paris by Jacob Abbott

"It is so that I may put you upon the first page of my tomorrow's edition, young man, and I publish eighty thousand.
— from A Romance of Youth — Volume 3 by François Coppée

Well, better go back and take another sleep, then; it may put you in a more optimistic mood."
— from The Gringos A Story Of The Old California Days In 1849 by B. M. Bower

You have noticed that there are plenty of terraces, so that in many places you can walk up or down the Canyon as on a made road, but that would help you not a whit in getting across."
— from The Boy With the U. S. Survey by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

In a short time he knew far more than Gumpertz himself, who has become famous through his entreaty to Magister Gottsched at Leipsic, whilom absolute monarch in German literature: "I would most respectfully supplicate that it may please your worshipful Highness to permit me to repair to Leipsic to pasture on the meadows of learning under your Excellency's protecting wing."
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

"This picture is not for sale, Sir Benjamin," said Dora frigidly, "neither for five hundred nor for five thousand, nor for any other sum that it may please you to offer."
— from Woman and Artist by Max O'Rell

Moreover, you have reminded me that in Paris I am the president of the Société des Gens de Lettres; so that in my person you honour all French literature.
— from Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer: An Account of His Life & Work by Ernest Alfred Vizetelly

There was a deep cleft in the cliffs just there, and the descent wound curiously in and out of the rock, so that in many places you could only trace it from below by the windows hewn in the solid stone to give light and air to the passage.
— from To Leeward by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

Governor Randolph, of Virginia, pictured the Congress as saying to his State: "May it please your high mightinesses of Virginia to pay your just proportionate quota of the national debt; we humbly supplicate that it may please you to comply with your federal duties.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks