Very well; but in that case I shall use my pen against you.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

Why look you so upon me? PHEBE.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A soiled, unshaven man pushed open the door and entered.
— from Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane

I begged him to do me the favour of presiding; and my request being seconded by the other boys who were in that room, he acceded to it, and sat upon my pillow, handing round the viands—with perfect fairness, I must say—and dispensing the currant wine in a little glass without a foot, which was his own property.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But it's no matter; he should not shut up my path if he were fifty baronets melted into one and living in a hundred Chesney Wolds, one within another, like the ivory balls in a Chinese carving.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

J'ai eu l'an passé l'idée de construire un site littéraire centré sur la poésie: internet me semble un moyen privilégié pour faire circuler des idées, pour communiquer ses passions aussi.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But though I did get another signed of my own clerk’s, yet I will give it to his clerk, because I would not be judged unkind, and though I will stand upon my privilege.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But the amendment of this fault, and of all our other vices and offences, is to be sought for in philosophy: and as my own inclination and desire led me, from my earliest youth upward, to seek her protection, so, under my present misfortunes, I have had recourse to the same port from whence I set out, after having been tossed by a violent tempest.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

109 I CAST my own shadow upon my path, because I have a lamp that has not been lighted. 110 MAN goes into the noisy crowd to drown his own clamour of silence.
— from Stray Birds by Rabindranath Tagore

"Just to encourage reckless old gentlemen to smash up my premises, I suppose," retorted John.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 by Various

But she knew that a certain sullen, unresponsive mood possessed him.
— from The Story of Julia Page by Kathleen Thompson Norris

"And when this strapping young Singleton comes, Richard, 'twould do you good to be hiding there in that cupboard,—and it would hold you,—and count the seconds until Miss Prim has her skirt in her hand and her foot on the lower step.
— from Richard Carvel — Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

Thus, then, if I sum up my position, I indeed propose to do what I choose, in so far as I am able, and in so far as I can find out what it is that I choose and can avoid thwarting myself by my own choices.
— from The Sources of Religious Insight by Josiah Royce

We were anxious that neither the children nor the servants should catch the contagion of those fears which had seized upon my poor little wife, and, if truth were spoken, upon myself in some degree also.
— from J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 4 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

I split up my personality and show to the world a rationalistic occultist, but I keep my innermost individuality unimpaired and cherish the germ of a creedless religion.
— from Legends: Autobiographical Sketches by August Strindberg

I grow a slave unto my potent [280] love, Whose power change
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 3 by John Marston

From his house I shall go soon to Vaucouleurs, and wait and strive until my prayer is granted.
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 1 by Mark Twain

The line drawn across the tablet intersects the address of Innini and, if not for some unknown musical purpose, must be regarded as an error.
— from Sumerian Liturgies and Psalms by Stephen Langdon