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665 `And in this middel chaumbre that ye see Shal youre wommen slepen wel and softe; And ther I seyde shal your-selve be;
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
“I am going away tomorrow, as you bade me—I won’t write—so that this is the last time I shall see you, the last time!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“Yes; I had been told that I should see you today at seven o’clock.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas
Well, then, Thrasymachus, I said, suppose you begin at the beginning and answer me.
— from The Republic by Plato
This was often repeated by the reporter; and it appeared to him also that the intervention, so strange, yet so efficacious, which till then had served them so well, had now failed them.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
You deserve that I should smash you like a wine-glass.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I
If that is so, sweetheart, you are privileged.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
I ought to try, I said, since you offer me such invaluable assistance.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato
I didn’t go up to you to punish you … I didn’t know when I went up to you that I should strike you … I did it because you meant so much to me in my life … I …” “I understand, I understand, spare your words.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I mean that I shall shoot you.”
— from Marie: An Episode in the Life of the Late Allan Quatermain by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard
servand, that I sall send yow over the vatter vithin thre dayis, vith an full resolucion of all my vill, anent all purposes; As I sall indeid recommend yow and yowr trustiness till his lo.
— from James VI and the Gowrie Mystery by Andrew Lang
"That is another question that I shall satisfy you upon after we are married, Marceline," answered Yvon after a moment's reflection; "but to return to the miracle that is to explain my transformation from idiocy to sanity, it is quite simple: St. Eusebius, the patron of the hermitage, will be credited with having performed the prodigy, and the monk, who now derives a goodly revenue from the hermitage will not deny my explanation, seeing that the report of the new miracle will double his tithes.
— from The Infant's Skull; Or, The End of the World. A Tale of the Millennium by Eugène Sue
But I scarce thought I should see you again.
— from French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America by Evelyn Everett-Green
You fear, Ligurra—above all, you long— That I should smite you with a stinging song.
— from New Poems, and Variant Readings by Robert Louis Stevenson
As to Castalia, I cannot help feeling a conviction that her discontent is chiefly reflected, and that if she saw you cheerful and active in your daily business, she would not repine at her lot."
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope
It came from Mr. Mudge, and contained these words: "Important that I should see you.
— from The Truants by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
No, little angel, it were better that I should see you tomorrow at Vespers.
— from Poor Folk by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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