"Who is that handsome young man I caught tête-a-tête with you, Clara?"
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The house you mean is called Manilovka because Manilovka is its name; but no house at all is called ZAmanilovka.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol
In your bad strokes, Brutus, you give good words; Witness the hole you made in Caesar’s heart, Crying, “Long live!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
For example, if you say, I care more for you than he , you mean, I care more for you than he cares for you.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton
'If you choose to have your money,' I continued, 'it is yours.
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton
Witness the hole you made in Caesar's heart, Crying "Long live!
— from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Certain variants of the ballad bear the title of The Croodlin Doo , and the ‘handsome young man’ is changed for a child, and the poisoner is the child’s step-mother.
— from Ballads of Romance and Chivalry Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - First Series by Frank Sidgwick
News had arrived an hour before which had thrown his young mind into confusion: the soldiers were out for conscripts, and would in all probability arrive at the Rancho Los Palos Verdes that evening or the following morning.
— from The Valiant Runaways by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
I will rather give thee the sword from the howe, young maid; I cannot refuse thee.”
— from The Edda, Volume 2 The Heroic Mythology of the North Popular Studies in Mythology, Romance, and Folklore, No. 13 by L. Winifred Faraday
Witness the hole you made in Cæsar's heart, Crying, 'Long live!
— from The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by William Shakespeare
Anyone would have been proud of the twelve handsome young men I called my sons.
— from Legendary Heroes of Ireland by Harold F. Hughes
But if you say, I care more for you than him , you mean, I care more for you than I care for him.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton
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