WITH all the pleasure with which a man exchanges bad company for good, I take my leave of Sir William and return to you.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

“It can’t be very pleasant to stay with aunt,” replied the youth.
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers

She was abominably rude to you this morning at breakfast and yet you were just as polite as ever.
— from A Beautiful Possibility by Edith Ferguson Black

“As it can’t be done, sir, with all respect to you as the head of the parish.”
— from The Weathercock: Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by George Manville Fenn

I am not hurt or tired: it is my duty; so with all respect to you I will go.”
— from The Crystal Hunters: A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps by George Manville Fenn

In the Subdepartment of Flax, after heckling the flax with combs of increasing degrees of fineness till the fibers lay pretty straight, after spinning it into yarn on her spinning wheel, after reeling the yarn off into skeins, after “bucking” the skeins in hot lye through many changes of water, and after using shuttle and loom to weave the stuff into cloth, the home woman of those days had to accomplish 60 some twenty subsequent processes of bucking, rinsing, possing, drying, and bleaching before the cloth was ready for use.
— from The Women of Tomorrow by William Hard

He called her "madame," and rarely concluded a sentence without a reference to "Your husband, madame!"
— from Patsy by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

"Do you know," he said, "what a rotten thing you have done?" "Rotten!"
— from The Business of Life by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

You fear that you would be cast off, that you would suffer want and ridicule, that your father would never feed you and clothe you again; and when that fear comes into your heart what room is left for me?
— from The Ghetto: A Drama in Four Acts by Herman Heijermans