They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Grethel, she said, "You naughty children, why have you slept so long in the forest?—-we thought you were never coming back at all!"
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

I've finished that bing o' stanes, so you needna chap ony mair this forenoon.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

They knocked at the door, and when the woman opened it and saw that it was Hansel and Gretel, she said: ‘You naughty children, why have you slept so long in the forest?—we thought you were never coming back at all!’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

,” said Long John very sternly, “you never clapped your eyes on that Black—Black Dog before, did you, now?” “Not I, sir,” said Morgan with a salute.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

We speak of things which are now shameful, and although we try, as well as we are able, to conceive them as they were before they became shameful, yet necessity compels us rather to limit our discussion to the bounds set by modesty than to extend it as our moderate faculty of discourse might suggest.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

“Papa says you never come to see us now,” continued Miss Oliver, looking up.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

They said you nearly caught them in the corridor as they were coming back, but they dodged inside the book cupboard.
— from Loyal to the School by Angela Brazil

Should you not condemn it as unpardonable impertinence if I presumed thus far."
— from The Younger Sister: A Novel, Volumes 1-3 by Mrs. (Catherine-Anne Austen) Hubback

For several years now China has been certified as free, that is to say, the cultivation of the poppy has been entirely discontinued.
— from Peking Dust by Ellen N. (Ellen Newbold) La Motte

"Saw you no cognizance upon his sleeve or upon the trappings of his horse?" queried Blunt.
— from The Red Tavern by C. R. (Charles Raymond) Macauley

"Stop your noise," commanded the woman who must have been his mother.
— from The Precipice: A Novel by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

'Mr Wrayburn.' 'Schoolmaster.' 'Sir, my name is Bradley Headstone.' 'As you justly said, my good sir, your name cannot concern me.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

{324} 'I think your complexion looks a little sallow this morning, John,' returned Mrs. Ross rather timidly, for she knew her husband's objection to any form of ailment; 'and I am sure you never closed your eyes all night.'
— from Lover or Friend by Rosa Nouchette Carey

But you, Sinclair, you need coin.
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand

She discussed current matters of world politics with the strength of a statesman; yet nothing could be more womanly in the highest sense.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 by Andrew Dickson White

I have suffered so much since I last saw you; never can I forget the unkind manner in which he rejected my entreaties!
— from Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte — Volume 08 by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne