Think, girls, think of what you're singing.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

“Well, you may tell them I wish you to stay till I can talk some things over with you I have on my mind: to-night it is too late, and I have a difficulty in recalling them.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

I spent the night thinking over what you said, my adored one.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

"I shall some time or other," said he, "come to the truth of what you are now concealing, and in such a way that ye shall not be able to contradict it.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Shall I enumerate them, or will you?” “Oh, you,” I replied hastily.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

“Then you are fretting about General Tilney, and that is very simple of you; for ten to one whether you ever see him again.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

We have plenty of time before getting to the cemetery, the trees of which you see up yonder, for it is a stiff pull up this hill.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Now, sir, if the fugitive alight in some distant town, and find all the people babbling about that self-same dead man, whom he has fled so far to avoid the sight and thought of, will you not allow that his natural rights have been infringed?
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“You have a perfect right,” I rejoined, “to fix the terms on which you feel justified in revealing what you heard at Mr. Candy’s bedside.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The buds are bluish and the lovely flowers are about three inches long and pure-white, delicately striped with pale-green and blue on the outside, with yellow anthers and a white stigma, and with a papery bract at the base of each pedicel.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong

Ah, well; there is a world of things in children's minds that grown-up people do not imagine, though they, too, once were young!”
— from Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors by James Freeman Clarke

When I determined to live with you, I was only governed by affection.—I would share poverty with you, but I turn with affright from the sea of trouble on which you are entering.—I have certain principles of action: I know what I look for to found my happiness on.—It is not money.—With
— from The Love Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft to Gilbert Imlay by Mary Wollstonecraft

I've thought a great many times of what you said about the statue.
— from The Glory of the Conquered: The Story of a Great Love by Susan Glaspell

[and] bawling loudly, “Doctor, Doctor, damn your blood, get up & give us a bowl of Toddy, other wise You’ll repent it.”
— from The Doctor's Secret Journal by Daniel Morison

The following additional changes have been made and can be identified in the body of the text by a grey dotted underline: It was from the Lamoyant plays of Diderot and his school It was from the Larmoyant plays of Diderot and his school I will lay a wager it is the servant of the officer whom you are in love.
— from The Comedies of Carlo Goldoni edited with an introduction by Helen Zimmern by Carlo Goldoni

My dear Nephew, and by a higher tie, Son, I thank God I have this day been favoured with such a mitigation of the disease as amounts to a reprieve, and have had ease enough of sensation to be able to think of what you said to me from Lockhart, and the result is a wish that you should—that is, if it appears right to you, and you have no objection of feeling—write for me to Professor Wilson, offering the Essays, and the motives for the wish to have them republished, with the authority (if there be no breach of confidence) of Mr. Lockhart.
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I put him back in his cage, or tank, or whatever you call it, though I was afraid he'd bite me."
— from The Curlytops and Their Pets; Or, Uncle Toby's Strange Collection by Howard Roger Garis

"Yes, Lannie, who am I, and what have I done to deserve the honor of this occasion?" "Why, you are Emperor William the First, and this is a long time ago when you were younger and your grandchildren here were not [133] grown up.
— from The Pansy Magazine, February 1886 by Various

6:21: "What fruit had you therefore then in those things, of which you are now ashamed?"
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint