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After waiting for some answering remark, and getting none, Tom wearily relapsed into the present time, and twined himself yawning round and about the rails of his chair, and rumpled his head more and more, until he suddenly looked up, and asked: ‘Have you gone to sleep, Loo?’ ‘No, Tom.
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens
I've got to have you! ROSALIND: (A hard note in her voice)
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald
Meanwhile, I suppose I ought to hear you read aloud half an hour each day.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter
"I can't think how you ran, after that awful whack Ellinor Cooper gave you," sympathized Marjorie.
— from The Luckiest Girl in the School by Angela Brazil
"Then it is understood that I am to have your rooms at sixteen dollars?" said he.
— from Woman's Trials; Or, Tales and Sketches from the Life around Us by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Plundered, oppressed, more than once expelled by violence, they have yet returned, again and again, to the home of their adoption, and they are now treated, if not respectfully, at least mildly, and on the whole, justly, by their Christian rulers.
— from Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II by G. R. (George Robert) Gleig
So I wanted to have you right and be fit for you, and after that night I went to work
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton
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