Seeing that you are feasting with your friends, I bring you these fish.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

“That’s the second time you’ve made that sort of remark.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

Yes, a kind of summer tour, you see.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

“Athanasi Vassilievitch,” he said firmly, “if you will but petition for my release, as well as for permission for me to leave here with a portion of my property, I swear to you on my word of honour that I will begin a new life, and buy a country estate, and become the head of a household, and save money, not for myself, but for others, and do good everywhere, and to the best of my ability, and forget alike myself and the feasting and debauchery of town life, and lead, instead, a plain, sober existence.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

So says Sigvat the skald:— "The youthful king stained red the hair Of Angeln men, and dyed his spear At Newport in their hearts' dark blood: And where the Danes the thickest stood— Where the shrill storm round Olaf's head Of spear and arrow thickest fled.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

All this you will understand; for there is community of material between us: we are both critics of life as well as of art; and you have perhaps said to yourself when I have passed your windows, "There, but for the grace of God, go I."
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

For example, you hear a noise, and you say to yourself "tram."
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

But now I will confide something to you.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Accordingly it will be all the same to you whether your individuality is restored to you after the lapse of three months or ten thousand years.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

I have, therefore, as human life is uncertain, made such a disposition of my affairs, as will make you absolutely independent and happy; as will secure to you the power of doing a great deal of good, and living as a person ought to do, who is my relict; and shall put it out of any body's power to molest your father and mother, in the provision I design them, for the remainder of their days:
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The following is the oath of this ale official, taken from the Liber Albus , compiled in the reign of Henry V. by John Carpenter, clerk, and Richard Whittington, mayor:—“You shall swear, that you shall know of no brewer, or brewster, cook, or pie-baker, in your ward, who sells the gallon of best ale for more than one penny halfpenny, or the gallon of second for more than one penny, or otherwise than by measure sealed and full of clear ale; or who brews less than he used to do before this cry, by reason hereof, or withdraws himself from following his trade
— from The Curiosities of Ale & Beer: An Entertaining History (Illustrated with over Fifty Quaint Cuts) by John Bickerdyke

“I see that you have read Sainte Beuve, Major Noltitz; perhaps this sceptical academician was right in a general way.
— from The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" by Jules Verne

His conduct said in so many words, ‘Miss Milroy may hear of it; I daren’t run the risk of being seen speaking to you.’
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

Susy was silent: she needed time to reckon up her forces, and study her next move; and her brain was in such a whirl of fear that she could at last only retort: “What is it that Ellie said to you?”
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton

That very afternoon, on her return from Jocelyn's studio to Miss Leigh's little house in Kensington which she now called her "home"—she found a reply-paid telegram from her publishers, running thus: "Eminent journalist John Harrington reviews book favourably in evening paper suggesting that you are the actual author.
— from Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Marie Corelli

It was necessary that I should put all this very strongly before you, because, otherwise, you might have been led to think differently of the completeness of our knowledge by the next facts I shall state to you.
— from Darwiniana : Essays — Volume 02 by Thomas Henry Huxley

Although this might naturally give rise to more or less of political animadversion, Lord Aberdeen would not hesitate in his decision, if the alternative were only between himself and some Peer of high rank whose claim consisted in being a supporter of the Government; but Lord Aberdeen believes that he may venture to make a suggestion to your Majesty, the effect of which would redound to your Majesty's honour, and which might not prove altogether disadvantageous to himself.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

There was a long silence, then she answered in a muffled but steady tone— “You are right, Monsieur.
— from The Quest of Glory by Marjorie Bowen