Heathcliff took the handsomest, but it soon fell lame, and when he discovered it, he said to Hindley— ‘You must exchange horses with me: I don’t like mine; and if you won’t I shall tell your father of the three thrashings you’ve given me this week, and show him my arm, which is black to the shoulder.’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Not that her young men ever come here—but, Lord, in the nature of women, she must have a dozen!" "That's unfortunate," said Farmer Oak, contemplating a crack in the stone floor with sorrow.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

An we bring not the water back again, and soon, we are ruined, and the good work of two hundred years must end.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

Now, much as I love you, I would not have you suppose that I am going to have your memory exercised at my expense, if you have Lysias himself here.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

But on Wednesday, I think, Henry, you may expect us; and we shall be with you early, that we may have time to look about us.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

"Before you receive my daughter and the half of my kingdom," said he to him, "you must execute another brave deed.
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

1, 84, since you are in possession of that horse, you must either have bought him or inherited him, or else you must necessarily have stolen him .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

— Therefore hear you, mistress; either frame Your will to mine, and you, sir, hear you, Either be ruled by me, or I will make you — Man and wife.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

POLYNEICES Nay, that rests with fate, Whether I live or die; but for you both I pray to heaven ye may escape all ill; For ye are blameless in the eyes of all.
— from Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone by Sophocles

Early in the evening the two boys went up to the Van der Donk house, being met by Margaret, who seemed very glad to see them, and said: "We have been busy putting things to rights, and if it does not look very tidy here you must excuse it.
— from The Hilltop Boys on the River by Cyril Burleigh

The two huge young men entered.
— from The Lady Paramount by Henry Harland

It was in vain that his youthful mind endeavoured to shake off these impressions, nor can this be wondered at, as even the wise and the learned did not agree in their opinions on the subject.’
— from The Subterranean World by G. (Georg) Hartwig

"I'm glad to hear your mother express such confidence, Vint," Jack said as they walked out on the veranda to take a good-night smoke; "but just let me give you a maxim of my own, the lock's not sure unless the key is in your pocket."
— from The Iron Game A Tale of the War by Henry F. (Henry Francis) Keenan

“You’re not looking as bright as I should like,” said Power; “never mind; if you didn’t enjoy the holidays you must enjoy the half.”
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

"Not been through the house yet, maybe, eh!"
— from Heiress of Haddon by W. E. (William Elliott) Doubleday

These pillars are the highest; you may equal them; and an inch above is worth an ell below.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

—We are alone, and while There’s none to hear, you must excuse a soldier If he speak plainly, Cæsar.
— from Poetical Works of Robert Bridges, Volume 3 by Robert Bridges