so and so, when you simply thought the communication sprang impromptu from the instant's impulse: his plan in bringing it about that you shall come on such a day, to such a place, under such and such circumstances, when the whole arrangement seems to your crude apprehension the ordinance of chance, or the sequel of exigency.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And, Prince of Wales, so dare we venture thee, Albeit considerations infinite Do make against it.—No, good Worcester, no; We love our people well; even those we love That are misled upon your cousin’s part; And, will they take the offer of our grace, Both he, and they, and you, yea, every man Shall be my friend again, and I’ll be his: So tell your cousin, and then bring me word What he will do:
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“You don’t mean to say that you came after me in spite of all?”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Hold your tongue, Ma!’ said the young Crab, a little snappishly.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

A man always makes a fool of himself, speechifying: there's no excuse but being on the right side, so that you can ask a blessing on your humming and hawing.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The latter he imputes to your "imperfect acquaintance with many of the words which he uses;" and the same objection makes it a presumption in you to suppose that you can admire him.—Thomson they seem to have forgotten.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

This principle says that you cannot adequately know even a part until you know of what whole it forms a part.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Spindle Tree Your charms are engraven on my heart.
— from Language of Flowers by Kate Greenaway

Then a great fire was again made, and the mother said: ‘Just sit there, you children, and when you are tired you may sleep a little; we are going into the forest to cut wood, and in the evening when we are done, we will come and fetch you away.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

Here, too, (as so often impressed me in decayed English towns,) there appeared to be a greater abundance of aged people wearing small-clothes and leaning on sticks than you could assemble on our side of the water by sounding a trumpet and proclaiming a reward for the most venerable.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 63, January, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

There are some things you can add for which the demand will not be great, but then the cost of making is small.
— from One Thousand Ways to Make Money by Page Fox

But you have just said that you can assist me.
— from Her Majesty's Minister by William Le Queux

He said that you cried all the time like a big baby.”
— from Dick Kent in the Far North by M. M. (Milo Milton) Oblinger

These, as you probably know, increase in number by one annually; so that you can always tell the age of the amiable serpent you are examining—if it will let you count the number of joints of its rattle.
— from Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation: 1838-1839 by Fanny Kemble

You say that you can all shoot.
— from With Wolseley to Kumasi: A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton

“You see the young chap arn’t quite up to his dooty; so I thought, as I was his superior officer, it was the most properest thing in natur for me to tell him what’s what.
— from Lady Eureka; or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future. Volume 2 by Robert Folkestone Williams

Talk loudly of love and faith, and make it possible all the time that a fellow human creature should think you capable at a pinch of the worst treason against both?
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

As the light grew stronger, though yet cold and gray, Dunwody, sighing, raised his head from his hands and turned.
— from The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise by Emerson Hough

"I owe my ship—I may say my life, since in such a conflict they would have gone together, to thy succor!" said the young commander, as he approached the motionless form of the smuggler.
— from The Water-Witch; Or, the Skimmer of the Seas: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper