Why it that?" "Because you are looking at her.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Originally a “ HAIR OF THE DOG that bit you.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

"The next time I pray you to allow me only a fair warning, and I shall be proud to bear you company.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

You’ll talk a long time before you rub them out, Mr. Squeers.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I was walking alone through a wood, and at last I came to a house, in which no living soul was, but on the wall there was a bird in a cage which cried, "Turn back, turn back, young maiden dear, 'Tis a murderer's house you enter here."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The growing piles of ashes and cinders in the back yards were the only evidence that the wasteful, consuming process of life went on at all.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

“‘It is unnecessary for you to bind yourself by any vow,’ said he; ‘I know and admire the Corsican nature too well to fear you.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

They believed you could be changed into a tree from grief.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Cast off the boat!" yelled the big sailor.
— from Dick Hamilton's Steam Yacht; Or, A Young Millionaire and the Kidnappers by Howard Roger Garis

But you must not carry arms if I am to be your guide."
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, Issue 02, February 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

You will know that before you are long with us.
— from The Cruise of the Snowbird: A Story of Arctic Adventure by Gordon Stables

Beat ½ lb. sweet almonds with orange flower water, add ½ lb. sugar, 1 lb. butter, melted, and nearly cold, the beaten yolks of 10 and the whites of 4 eggs, beat 2 candied oranges, the peel of a fresh one (the bitterness boiled out), till they are as tender as marmalade, then beat all well together, and bake in little patty-pans, lined.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

I can afford to bring your children up as well as Teddy, my boy.
— from Love at Second Sight by Ada Leverson

Thus fell in his bloom the blameless youth;— Insanity seized on poor Ellen, The lovely maniac!
— from The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti Descriptive of Life in Wales: Interspersed with Poems by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

your voice is angry, and this becomes you well, though I, in my folly, may sometimes weep at it.
— from Undine by La Motte-Fouqué, Friedrich Heinrich Karl, Freiherr de