Go sit with Alexandrus yourself; henceforth be goddess no longer; never let your feet carry you back to Olympus; worry about him and look after him till he make you his wife, or, for the matter of that, his slave—but me?
— from The Iliad by Homer

Since to that place you needs must speed, Where all your ancestors precede, Why in the blindness of your heart Do you torment your noble part?” All this to thee do I indite, Thou grudging churl, thy heir’s delight, Who robb’st the gods of incense due, Thyself of food and raiment too; Who hear’st the harp with sullen mien, To whom the piper gives the spleen; Who’rt full of heavy groans and sighs When in their price provisions rise; Who with thy frauds heaven’s patience tire To make thy heap a little higher,
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

On coming up to the palki, she said, “Where are you taking away my daughter?” for she was the nurse of the merchant’s youngest child.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

I took him to the Rue Payenne, to exactly the same spot where, a year before, at the very same hour, he had paid me the compliment I have related to you.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

There he perceives a cunningly wrought fountain of many-coloured jasper and polished marble; here another of rustic fashion where the little mussel-shells and the spiral white and yellow mansions of the snail disposed in studious disorder, mingled with fragments of glittering crystal and mock emeralds, make up a work of varied aspect, where art, imitating nature, seems to have outdone it.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Moreover, I acknowledge my default without doubt to have been great in that which I wrought against Tedaldo; and an I might, I would gladly amend it on such wise as you have said; but how may this be done?
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“Now, tell me, my dear,” I said, “what are you crying about?” “About the years that are gone, Mr. Betteredge,” says Rosanna quietly.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

“Very good; but supposing you succeed in destroying superstition, what are you going to put in its place?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Did any of Marina's other Russian-speaking friends in the Dallas-Fort Worth area write letters to her while she was at your home?
— from Warren Commission (02 of 26): Hearings Vol. II (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

I came as near them undiscovered as I could, and then before any of them saw me, I called aloud to them in Spanish, "What are ye gentlemen?
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

She was a young woman somewhat below the common stature, quick of speech, her face and eyes full of vivacity, and about thirty years of age.
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

He answered, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; * and your neighbor as yourself."
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

There are thorns in her mind that no one knows how to deal with so well as you do, and she told me yesterday how she longed to get to you.”
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

‘Shall I show you to your room, then?’ said the Père, rising and opening a door into a small chamber adjoining; ‘my servant will attend you.’ ‘No,’ said the youth faintly.
— from Gerald Fitzgerald, the Chevalier: A Novel by Charles James Lever

She gave it a push with her foot, saying: “What are you doing here, and how dared you put yourself in the place of my pot of pinks?”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Let it, however, be admitted that such words as yayîn , "wine" (οἶνος), lappid , "a torch" (λαμπάς), and a few others, may indicate some early intercourse between Greece and the East, and that some commercial relations of a rudimentary kind were existent even in prehistoric days.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

And to their sugar and slaves." "Where are you going?"
— from Caribbee by Thomas Hoover

"Oh, Doctor, or you, Captain Standish, have either of you a flask of strong waters about you?
— from Standish of Standish: A Story of the Pilgrims by Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin