and I’ll think of you a many and a many a time, and I’ll pray for you, too!”—and she was gone.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
It then proceeds—"In consequence of the Increase of the population of the Town of York, and many applications for family accommodation upon the arrival of strangers desirous of becoming settlers, the Subscriber intends to add to the practice of his Office the business of a [207] House Surveyor and Architect , to lay out Building Estate, draw Ground plans, Sections and Elevations , to order , and upon the most approved European and English customs.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding
I can’t think of you and myself apart.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf
And now he has for store three only, yourself and me and an old woman yonder; and of these three he will surely devour one to-morrow.
— from The Faery Queen and Her Knights: Stories Retold from Edmund Spenser by Alfred John Church
Talk of your animal magnetists, And that wave of the hand no soul resists, Not all its witcheries can compete With the friendly beckon towards Downing Street, Which a Premier gives to one who wishes To taste of the Treasury loaves and fishes.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore
Now, therefore, when she began to weep and to cry, “Dearest Love, I set you free when you were in the Iron Stove in the terrible wild forest,” the King’s Son leapt up and said, “You are the true one, you are mine, and I am yours.”
— from Grimm's Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm
Why, I have thirty of you and more, and the whole lot hear from me sharp enough if they do not do as I say."
— from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome
By a kind of unconscious intuition, the eye now found easy routes, the lower leg mechanically traveled over yards and miles and degrees without even consulting the brain, while the leg trunk, in the effort to conserve energy, was left in repose at periods during miles of travel, thus saving much of the exertion of walking.
— from My Attainment of the Pole Being the Record of the Expedition That First Reached the Boreal Center, 1907-1909. With the Final Summary of the Polar Controversy by Frederick Albert Cook
You can bring down your paint-box if you want something to occupy you, and make a drawing of me or my maid or Joyce or something."
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson
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