Never—never in my most secret thoughts have I regarded you otherwise than as another's wife.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen

He was to blame for all the misfortunes that had in recent years befallen the family of the patient, for all his personal and social ill-luck.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Don't you see that he is robbing you of your fish?
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The roots being of the same virtue with the herb, I refer you thither.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Some people have gone out, and when the hearing is resumed, you might make an effort.” “Where is the entrance?” “Through yonder large door.” The lawyer left him.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I did not want to have it reach you.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Please it your grace to haue in remembraunce yo ur Fynours of Duresme whose contynuaunce here is not onely to their greate cost and losse of tyme but also to the greate hinderaunce of your werk es ther, and also they be veray poore, your gracious pleasure therfore wold be knowen whether they shall resorte to yo ur presence, or howe otherwise yo ur grace will they shalbe ordred I haue according to your moste gracious co m maundement sent herein inclosed the clere yerely valeurs of all suche lond es as ye haue purchased in the Counties of Yorke and Buckingham, and also the clere yerely value of the late monasterie of Wallingforde
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Cromwell, Vol. 1 of 2 Life, Letters to 1535 by Roger Bigelow Merriman

I shouldn't like to have it repeated, yet I can't help the feeling that there is a great deal of truth in what the article says about his disloyalty to the South."
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

For this have I reared you Bold for the fight, Made you relentless And hard of heart That ye wild ones might weep and whine When my wrath on a faithless one falls?
— from The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie The Ring of the Niblung, part 1 by Richard Wagner

But still, so long as a man has a youthful look he tries to persuade himself that he is really young; to be sure, there is always something in our inmost being that reminds us how old we are; but so long as that something does not let itself be seen, we are entitled to forget it.
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

Respect, indeed, was the quality in which he had never failed her, and this, even more than his affection, had become a balm to her in recent years, when Lucy and Jenny occasionally lost patience and showed themselves openly amused by her old-fashioned opinions.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The smaller, who sported astonishingly big and blue eyes, said to Hank in Russian, "You're too good to associate with metrofanushka girls?"
— from Combat by Mack Reynolds

Oh! how glad I am to hear from your father, that he is recalling you from Baiae sooner than was intended.
— from Quintus Claudius: A Romance of Imperial Rome. Volume 1 by Ernst Eckstein

The horse I rode yesterday was wanted in the usual way by a trooper to whom it belonged, and where so many men were more or less drunk, the choice of my particular drunkard was certainly accidental.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Twenty-two times have I regulated your watch for you, at your own request.
— from Self-Doomed: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon