Then said the other, Do you see yonder shining light?
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

But if I say you shall? LOVBORG.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

‘Sir,’ retorted the stranger, ‘you speak like a mere man of the world, and I think you something better.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

With that came the damosel, and said, My lord the Green Knight, why for shame stand ye so long fighting with the kitchen knave?
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“Well, Mr. Holmes, it is difficult for me to refuse you anything, for you have been of use to the force once or twice in the past, and we owe you a good turn at Scotland Yard,” said Lestrade.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Don't shrug your shoulders like that.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

This man, though a gentle sort of scholar, yet sat like a fool for want of French or Spanish, but [knew] only Latin, which he spoke like an Englishman to one of the Fathers.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Say you Sir? Luc.
— from Cymbeline by William Shakespeare

It is a flat stone, which some years since lay even with the ground, but was, about 1815, raised on a few tier of bricks, (to prevent obliteration by footsteps,) by order of the church-wardens, as I was informed by the grave-digger, and which, no doubt, was done on account of the singularity of the lines.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 367, April 25, 1829 by Various

Best it suits your service, laddie, An' my drinkin', hodden-grey.
— from Hamewith by Charles Murray

I say, you shall listen and not be surprised.
— from The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

It almost seems," he added, in a tone of anguish and despair, "that heaven could not permit one so young, so lovely, to perish in such a heart-rending manner,"—he stopped abruptly,—and
— from Woman As She Should Be; Or, Agnes Wiltshire by Mary E. Herbert

Your body, unharmed by early indulgences, will get weaker, only as the sleepy child gets more and more unable to hold up its head, and falls back into its mother's lap: so you shall lay yourself down into the arms of the Christian's tomb, and on the slab that marks the place will be chiselled: "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."
— from The Abominations of Modern Society by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

“And so you see, Lucy,” continued Miss Anne, “a person might persevere without being industrious.
— from Cousin Lucy's Conversations By the Author of the Rollo Books by Jacob Abbott

18 Verily I say unto you, What things soever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and what things soever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
— from A Harmony of the Gospels for Students of the Life of Christ Based on the Broadus Harmony in the Revised Version by A. T. Robertson