I forgive you this once, but you must tell me everything.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

Yet your present impressions, dependent as they are on your chance attitude and disposition and on a thousand trivial accidents, are far from representing adequately all that might be discovered or that is actually known about the object before you.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

In the other books Yājnavalkya is the highest authority, while hardly any but Eastern peoples, or those of the middle of Hindustan, the Kuru-Panchālas, Kosalas, Videhas, Sṛinjayas, are named.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

I feel the greatest remorse for the disappointment of which I have been the occasion, but you will forgive me.”
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

You have also shut the gates of the city in general against nations that are the most nearly related to you; and while you give such injurious commands to others, you complain that you have been tyrannized over by them, and fix the name of unjust governors upon such as are tyrannized over by yourselves.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

"Must it alone, of all things—for this I ask—or is there any thing else which is not the same as the odd, but yet which we must always call odd, together with its own name, because it is so constituted by nature that it can never be without the odd?
— from Apology, Crito, and Phaedo of Socrates by Plato

Then taking my hat and cane and going to the door I tranquilly turned and added—"After you have removed your things from these offices, Bartleby, you will of course lock the door—since every one is now gone for the day but you—and if you please, slip your key underneath the mat, so that I may have it in the morning.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

By and by you will just naturally know one from the other, but you never will be able to explain why or how you know them apart
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

M Ajor Stede Bonnet , you stand here convicted upon two Indictments of Pyracy; one by the Verdict of the Jury, and the other by your own Confession.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

And I wonder, Richard, you can think of bothering your head about our poverty in case of your death; as if that would be anything compared with the calamity of losing you—an affliction that you well know would swallow up all others, and which you ought to do your utmost to preserve us from: and there is nothing like a cheerful mind for keeping the body in health.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The lively, light-hearted kindness that could not be content with waiting on the thirsty old man, but with cheerful alacrity took upon herself the care of all the ten camels, this was a gift beyond that of beauty; yet when it came in the person of a maiden exceedingly fair to look upon, no marvel that the old man wondered joyously at his success.
— from Woman in Sacred History A Series of Sketches Drawn from Scriptural, Historical, and Legendary Sources by Harriet Beecher Stowe

But their neigbours had more hurt done, for some of y e murderers of Oldome fled to y e Pequents, and though the English went to y e Pequents, and had some parley with them, yet they did but delude them, & y e English returned without doing any thing to purpose, being frustrate of their oppertunitie by y e others deceite.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

[Pg 74] III Table of Colors of Borax Beads in Oxidizing Flame Element Color Hot Color Cold Aluminum Colorless to Cloudy Colorless to Cloudy Antimony Yellowish Colorless Barium Colorless to Opaque Colorless to Opaque Bismuth Yellow Colorless Cadmium Yellow Colorless to White Calcium
— from The Elements of Blowpipe Analysis by Frederick Hutton Getman

"Yes." "Travelling on business?" "Yes."
— from Swirling Waters by Max Rittenberg

Almost immediately the image of a windmill comes into your mind: the object before you is a windmill.
— from Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic by Henri Bergson

It looks to me very like as if St. Ives would be ready before any of the others, but you know me and how impossible it is I should predict.
— from Vailima Letters Being Correspondence Addressed by Robert Louis Stevenson to Sidney Colvin, November 1890-October 1894 by Robert Louis Stevenson

This again proved ineffectual; therefore ascertaining that Graham intended to visit Atworth, I entered there and placed the terrible alkaloid on certain objects in your wife’s room—upon her waist-belt, and in the room that had been occupied by him on his previous visit, but which proved to be then occupied by yourself.”
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux