I, who only linger in this life in the hope of seeing you every day, should know something of that.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud
I have seen you—I see you every day.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Father Dolan will be in to see you every day.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
Maybe you don't count it nothing to have a real college doctor to see you every day—you, John, with your head broke—or you, George Merry, that had the ague shakes upon you not six hours agone, and has your eyes the colour of lemon peel to this same moment on the clock?
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
Frog is still your executor, d'ye see.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot
El sábado y el domingo estoy en casa.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
It was a pretty sight to see her veiled form gliding towards the sturdy young Englishman, dressed in his grey flannel suit; for, though he is half a Greek in blood, Leo is, with the exception of his hair, one of the most English-looking men I ever saw.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
“So may Abraham, Jacob, and all the fathers of our people assist me,” said Isaac, “I cannot make the choice, because I have not the means of satisfying your exorbitant demand!”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott
I really ought to hate you and instead I love you madly, and I’m miserable if I don’t see you every day.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
But perhaps the most significant of all his journeys is one we find noted as of some years' earlier date: a journey to the Fairs of Syria.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
I shall come and see you every day.”
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
Our gallant old Chief was far too wise, however, to throw his whole weight against these terrible lines of defence till he had discounted their value by the simple yet effective device of a turning movement, that old-established favourite with all great commanders.
— from Mutiny Memoirs: Being Personal Reminiscences of the Great Sepoy Revolt of 1857 by A. R. D. (Alfred Robert Davidson) Mackenzie
I have sought you each day since, only to find you were still in Santa Cruz.
— from The Bride of Mission San José: A Tale of Early California by John Augustine Cull
Amen, amen, if it be his blessed will, subscribes Your ever-dutiful DAUGHTER! Friday evening.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
El sábado y el domingo
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler
Just then a merry voice was heard singing in the hall outside, "It is all for the best, oh, my Father, All for the best, all for the best." "Will they let me come to see you every day?" asked Marian when the singer was beyond hearing.
— from The Rainbow Bridge by Frances Margaret Fox
Taking Nellie inside of this shelter, Yellow Elk deposited her on the ground.
— from The Boy Land Boomer; Or, Dick Arbuckle's Adventures in Oklahoma by Edward Stratemeyer
And furthermore shall ye exercise daily now, at the spoke command, to address your pikes 'gainst charge of horse or foot, and to that company adjudged the best and stoutest will I, each week, give store of money from my share of booty.
— from Beltane the Smith by Jeffery Farnol
23 His father and his mother both besought him tearfully to disregard the waywardness and folly of their son; but he would not; he said, 24 Lo, all these years I have remained at home, have served you every day, have never yet transgressed your most severe commands; 25
— from The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of The Church Universal by Levi
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