You dragged him out of the house, and did your best to save his life.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Col. Sellers was pleased to see this interest that Washington had awakened, especially since it was likely to further his expectations with regard to the Tennessee lands; the Senator having remarked to the Colonel, that he delighted to help any deserving young man, when the promotion of a private advantage could at the same time be made to contribute to the general good.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!—prophet still, if bird or devil!— Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted— On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there— is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!"
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

They are wonderfully well acquainted with Galen, but not at all with the disease of the patient; they have already deafened you with a long ribble-row of laws, but understand nothing of the case in hand; they have the theory of all things, let who will put it in practice.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When one of his friends said to him, "Alkibiades, do you not trust your native country?"
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

by my troth, thou gavest me a round knock,” replied the Captain; “do as much for this fellow, and thou shalt pass scot-free; and if thou dost not—why, by my faith, as thou art such a sturdy knave, I think I must pay thy ransom myself.—Take thy staff, Miller,” he added, “and keep thy head; and do you others let the fellow go, and give him a staff—there is light enough to lay on load by.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

Return, Emmanuel, to your charming wife, and present my best compliments to her; and do you, Morrel, accompany me to the Champs-Élysées.” “Willingly,” said Maximilian; “particularly as I have business in that quarter.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted— On this home by Horror haunted—tell me truly, I implore— Is there— is there balm in Gilead?—tell me—tell me, I implore!”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

She then explained the obligations she had to Jones; not that she was entirely explicit with regard to her daughter; for though she had the utmost confidence in Mr Allworthy, and though there could be no hopes of keeping an affair secret which was unhappily known to more than half a dozen, yet she could not prevail with herself to mention those circumstances which reflected most on the chastity of poor Nancy, but smothered that part of her evidence as cautiously as if she had been before a judge, and the girl was now on her trial for the murder of a bastard.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Did you not rob them when you put them off with crusts, who were entitled to sit with the heirs, and did you not add insult to robbery when you called the crusts charity?
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

It is for you, then, here and now, to decide whether you will harbor Page 67 [Pg 67] sensory pictures that impede your progress and allow them to harass and dominate you and interfere with the achievement of your ambition, or whether you will ignore these intruders and thereby annihilate them.
— from Applied Psychology: Making Your Own World Being the Second of a Series of Twelve Volumes on the Applications of Psychology to the Problems of Personal and Business Efficiency by Warren Hilton

Call your brother and young Grimstone to this side of the house, and do you all take steady aim at these moving patches.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I knew that justice had set its terrible mark upon him, and that the world thought him already dead; yet, all the while, I knew he was alive, still wandering, Cain-like, with his guilt and his condemnation upon his head.
— from Merkland; or, Self Sacrifice by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

For the good of the team you ought to take hold and do your best to become a player and fill one of the weak spots.”
— from The Great Oakdale Mystery by Morgan Scott

I want to see how you are looking before you get back into the house and do your best to deceive me.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in After Years by Margaret Vandercook

Suppose that they should do so, and that then, proceeding to the northward in triumph, they should enter the Hellespont and destroy your bridge?
— from Xerxes Makers of History by Jacob Abbott