To be allowed to hold your little fists like tender lotus-buds and slip flower chains over your wrists; to tinge the soles of your feet with the red juice of ashoka petals and kiss away the speck of dust that may chance to linger there. QUEEN.
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

"If you only cleared the house, you'd be quite happy, wouldn't you?" said Herbert, with his hand on his shoulder.
— from The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 2. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

It was then that the ecstasy and the dream began, in which emotion was the matter of the universe, and matter but an adventitious intrusion likely to hinder you from spinning where you wanted to spin.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

If you explain it to him, you are not describing but expounding it.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Every body talks how you have come on, and what a genteel girl you are; and some say you are very pretty; and, indeed, six months since, when I saw you last, I should have thought so myself, if you was not our child.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

‘The bay mare splashed away, through the mud and water, with drooping ears; now and then tossing her head as if to express her disgust at this very ungentlemanly behaviour of the elements, but keeping a good pace notwithstanding, until a gust of wind, more furious than any that had yet assailed them, caused her to stop suddenly and plant her four feet firmly against the ground, to prevent her being blown over.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“So they are indeed, and I am delighted to hear you say it.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

"You like to hear yourself talk, Bass, better than any man I know of.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

I'm as wishful t' have you settled well as if you was my own daughter; and so's your aunt, I'll be bound, for she's done by you this seven 'ear, Hetty, as if you'd been her own.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

I heard you were saucy at my gates, and allow'd your approach rather to wonder at you than to hear you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

" The meaning of this was as follows: nearly two hundred years before a certain Cylon tried to make himself tyrant of Athens: the attempt was frustrated, and some of his adherents, who had taken refuge in the sacred precinct of Athene, were put to death by the magistrates, after they had surrendered under a solemn promise that their lives should be spared.
— from Stories from Thucydides by Thucydides

I told him you were the picture of health, even if you didn't have anything in your head, and if you were ever going to learn the business it was time that you began.
— from Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer

The common earth too, well impregnated with this, is made into mortar, moulded in the form of brick, dried in the sun, and houses built of them which last one hundred or two hundred years.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 9 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

"I am glad to hear your explanation," he answered, "for it has completely removed the unpleasant impression caused by your former words.
— from A Crystal Age by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

The Guardian attaches the greatest possible importance to the forthcoming Inter-continental Conference to be held during the Holy Year in New Delhi; as the National Assemblies of Persia, United States, Canada, Central and South America, Iraq, Australia and New Zealand, as well as your own body, are to send representatives to it, it will, through having eight N.S.A.s pooling their thoughts and suggestions, be, no doubt, the most important of the four Inter-continental Conferences to be held.
— from Dawn of a New Day by Effendi Shoghi

'What do you think, Kitty, would you like to have your fortune told?' Kitty laughed.
— from Celibates by George Moore

"Clara," said Francis Ives in a low and affectionate tone, "have you read the books I sent you?" Clara answered him with a smile in the negative, but promised amendment as soon as she had leisure.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

"I—I have to add, Charles," she said, in a tremulous voice, "that justice, religion, mercy—every human attribute which bears the name of virtue, calls loudly upon me no longer to hold you to vows made under different auspices."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

I see no one near to harm you.”
— from The Fair Maid of Perth; Or, St. Valentine's Day by Walter Scott