If the danger had been fifty times as great, I should ha' come to see you, mind you, just the same.”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

“You are as pretty as you were twenty-six years ago, and if it had not been for the Abbe Galiani I should have left Naples without seeing you.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Is that true, Auguste?” “Grandpapa, I sent him as security your diamond snuff-box.
— from The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honoré de Balzac

Before they are gone I shall have painted and sold another; do not worry, we shall have all we need.”
— from Conscience — Complete by Hector Malot

“Then they are good ideally,” said Hans.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

To the fine hypostyle hall of the Ramesseum, Medinet-Abou could oppose the Royal Pavilion which rose in front of the temple and grouped itself so happily with the first pylon, affording one of the most effective compositions in the whole range of Egyptian architecture.
— from A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Charles Chipiez

I must confess that I do hold to the old lines, "Here's to the arm which can hold 'em when gone, Still to a gallop inclined, sir; Heads in the front without bearing reins on, And tails with no cruppers behind, sir."
— from An Old Coachman's Chatter, with Some Practical Remarks on Driving by Edward Corbett

she said; ‘I ken thy bark is worse than thy bite, but I would have thee to know that if aught befall the maid between this and Greystone, I shall hold thee—and so will my Lady—guilty of a foul deed.’
— from The Herd Boy and His Hermit by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Before taking his inheritance, in presence of all the assembled guests, Ivar seated himself on the steps leading to the high seat of Hjorvard, his father.
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu