Now, being weak in a school like this, where there are some girls who are not good, you have no chance at all, unless you go to someone stronger than yourself to help you.”
— from The Little School-Mothers by L. T. Meade

I swear to you, that hereafter you shall have nothing to fear from me.”
— from Other People's Money by Emile Gaboriau

"Wilhelmina, this man says that you told him you loved him."
— from Three Men and a Maid by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

“We will be glad,” he said to Yankee, “to hear you, Mr. Latham.”
— from The Man from Glengarry: A Tale of the Ottawa by Ralph Connor

Suppose that you tell him yourself, Lysis, I replied; for I am sure that you were attending.
— from Lysis by Plato

The Queen and her Councillors may think that you do not want to be friends, that you do not want your little ones to be taught, that you do not want when the food is getting scarce to have a hand in yours stronger than yours to help you.
— from The Treaties of Canada with the Indians of Manitoba and the North-West Territories Including the Negotiations on Which They Were Based, and Other Information Relating Thereto by Alexander Morris

If your paces are good, I shall keep you for my own riding; if not, I shall take you to Horncastle, your original destination.”
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow