Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I had in my possession a curious Japanese sword, which had been given to me by an uncle of Tom Wilson's—a strange gift to a young lady; but it was on account of its curiosity, and had no reference to my warlike propensities.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Besides, it would have been such bad taste to have treated a young lady in so scurvy a fashion.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

or May I? Permit me to assist you Let me help you Brainy Brilliant or clever I presume I suppose Tendered him a banquet Gave him a dinner Converse Talk Partook of liquid refreshment Had something to drink Perform ablutions Wash A song entitled Called (proper if used in legal sense) I will ascertain I will find out Residence or mansion House, or big house In the home In some one's house or At home Phone, photo, auto Telephone, photograph, automobile "Tintinnabulary summons," meaning bell, and "Bovine continuation," meaning cow's tail, are more amusing than offensive, but they illustrate the theory of bad style that is pretentious.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

They are your likeliest men, and I would have you serv'd with the best.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

On the other hand, suppose you work for a long, long time, all you life, and in the end obtain some practical results—what will your results amount to, what can they do against such elemental forces as wholesale ignorance, hunger, cold, and degeneracy?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Oh dear, dear uncle, if you ever could have known the agony your love would cause me when I fell away from good, you never would have shown it to me so constant, much as you felt it; but would have been angry to me, at least once in my life, that I might have had some comfort!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

There are another Kind of Impertinents which a Man is perplexed with in mixed Company, and those are your loud Speakers: These treat Mankind as if we were all deaf; they do not express but declare themselves.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Really, what would I do with them?' “'Dispose of them as you like.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

That's how she gets to know all about out-of-the-way sort of things; she's practical; and people think it strange that a young lady like her should know the ways and habits of common people; and that's why she interests them when she talks.
— from The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black

No person in their senses would send a few sprigs of common holly to a young lady in this odd way," said Prue, poking here and there in hopes of finding some clue.
— from Moods by Louisa May Alcott

Then she escaped, having told the truth, and yet leaving a pleasurable impression behind her.
— from The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

I have taken this opportunity of introducing him, to assure your lordship that, during the whole time that he served with me as midshipman, his gallantry was quite as conspicuous as it has been since.”
— from Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat

‘“Agra,”’ read this astonishing young lady, ‘“is India’s one pure idyll.
— from The Pool in the Desert by Sara Jeannette Duncan

In answer to some pretended rebuff received from her at Ryde he writes “There was a young lady of Ryde, so awfully puffed up by pride, She felt grander by far than the Son of the Czar, And when he said, ‘Dear, come and walk on the pier, Oh please come and walk by my side;’ The answer he got, was ‘Much better not,’ from that awful young lady of Ryde.”
— from A. W. Kinglake: A Biographical and Literary Study by William Tuckwell

Let the whole incident be a sealed book, and do not allow it to affect your life.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle