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When we had finished eating, he said to me, "My cousin, you would never guess what I have been doing since your last visit to us!
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang
At length Villefort, the most composed of all, spoke: “Sir,” said he to Maximilian, “you say you loved Valentine, that you were betrothed to her.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
He thought she looked so beautiful that he had to say something, “You look very cool.”
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield
However, wishing to know more of him, I said,— “In spite of your father’s sternness, you live very well.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
EPI: You are not well, sir; you look very ill; something has distemper'd you.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
Since you lack virtue, I will lose a husband- Send for your ring, I will return it home, And give me mine again.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
M., same year, Lady Vere Catherine Hobart, sister of 5th Earl of Buckinghamshire, and had issue.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton
Tenía de Cayo Graco la sabiduría y la virtud; la audacia de Agamenón y el perfil heroico de los hombres de la Gironda.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson
de Beauseant on the forehead as she said: “You look very charming to-day, dear.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac
As the carriage rattled up to the door he put his hand on her shoulder, and said: "You look very well to-night, my child.
— from Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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— from Chattanooga and Chickamauga Reprint of Gen. H. V. Boynton's letters to the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, August, 1888. by Henry V. (Henry Van) Boynton
It's been here since your last visit, and—" "That's been two months ago.
— from The Man in Lonely Land by Kate Langley Bosher
My advice to you is not to quarrel with him; you had better spend your long vacations away from Fording, and when you leave Oxford you can travel.”
— from The Nebuly Coat by John Meade Falkner
The steam arose from his soaked garments, so that the stout yeoman looked vaporous and spectre-like.
— from The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Now I'm sure you look very nice.
— from Four Little Blossoms and Their Winter Fun by Mabel C. Hawley
"But," said Little White Fox, when they were both comfortably seated, "you look very much like Little Brown Seal."
— from Little White Fox and his Arctic Friends by Roy J. (Roy Judson) Snell
And when he entered his mother's house, the look of rest on his face, the light in his eyes struck her so, that she said: "You look very well to-night, my son.
— from A Fair Mystery: The Story of a Coquette by Charlotte M. Brame
Baburin most likely guessed what I had been speaking about to Punin, and opening his lips, which were tightly compressed, as though glued together, he pronounced, in a deliberate voice, ‘My dear sir, since your last visit to us, something disagreeable has happened to us; our young friend, Musa Pavlovna Vinogradov, finding it no longer convenient to live with us, has decided to leave us, and has given us a written communication to that effect.
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev
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