At the moment when I was meditating thus, I beheld beside you a goat, a beast of witches, which smiled as it gazed at me.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

‘Yes, you have: I’ve mentioned him several times, I believe: but you don’t remember.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Sir, I will give you as much as this old man does, when the business is performed; and remain, as he says, your pawn till it be brought you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Oh, this is because... because...” “Yes?”
— from Afterwards, and Other Stories by Ian Maclaren

They say all kinds of things in Brenton, but you can't believe half of them.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 24, 1895 by Various

Wherefore, O youth, choose with confidence, me, the better cause, and you will learn to hate the Agora, and to refrain from baths, and to be ashamed of what is disgraceful, and to be enraged if any one jeer you, and to rise up from seats before your seniors when they approach, and not to behave ill toward your parents, and to do nothing else that is base, because you are to form in your mind an image of Modesty: and not to dart into the house of a dancing-woman, lest, while gaping after these things, being struck with an apple by a wanton, you should be damaged in your reputation: and not to contradict your father in anything; nor by calling him Iapetus, to reproach him with the ills of age, by which you were reared in your infancy.
— from The Clouds by Aristophanes

" "You looked beautiful the other day," he assured her with fervor, "but this is better, because you are rested and some of the sadness has gone out of your eyes.
— from The Tin Soldier by Temple Bailey

Your Temple is beautiful, but your religion is rotten!"
— from Men Called Him Master by Elwyn A. (Elwyn Allen) Smith

It is therefore a matter of very deep rejoicing to me that, in bringing before your examination the best forms of English art, I am necessarily leading you to take interest in the history of your country at the time when, so to speak, it became England.
— from The Eagle's Nest Ten Lectures on the Relation of Natural Science to Art, Given Before the University of Oxford, in Lent Term, 1872 by John Ruskin

Thus it begins:— “‘Behold, ye men, who shall be hereafter, and pay heed to this matter.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Ye hae gi'en me the glaiks aince by turning invisible; but be ye deil, be ye fairy, I sal secure ye now.
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 1 (of 3) by James Hogg

I’ll bet you weren’t all unhappy there in Blairtown before you turned the heads of all those Johnnies.”
— from The Girl From His Town by Marie Van Vorst

[Pg 122] Your 'model farm,' as you term it, built by you to instruct, to encourage, and to reward deserving labourers, has been of incalculable service to this part of the country.
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6 by Eugène Sue