If they had known the various tender passages of the past year, or rather attempts at tender passages which had been nipped in the bud, they would have had the immense satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

I wiped my tears away, and said to Lebel, “You are about to possess yourself of a treasure which I cannot commend too highly.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

While the harsh prude indemnifies her virtue By railing at the unknown and envied passion, Seeking far less to save you than to hurt you, Or, what 's still worse, to put you out of fashion,— The kinder veteran with calm words will court you, Entreating you to pause before you dash on; Expounding and illustrating the riddle Of epic Love's beginning, end, and middle.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“There now, Zíkin, they ought to put you on a horse.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Nor is the colour the pale yellow of box-wood, but like that of the elephant.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

At the little Paris theatres, on the other hand, you will not only hear the people yelling out "Ah gredin!
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

He must have seen that in Page 455 his standard year (the year 1764), the principal year of his new regulations, the export fell no less than 128,450 l. short of that in 1763!
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

They go in and finish the job to which the preceding years of radio broadcasts, the demoralization of the home front, the campaigns of news and morale materials to troops, and the actual air, ground, and sea attacks have led up.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

But don't let that put you out, either.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“As it happens, I was in Cunjee yesterday, talking to an agent, and I heard of a little place that might suit you very well—just about the price you ought to pay, and the land's not bad.
— from Back to Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce

In October of the previous year orders had been sent to the commanders in the West to rally the Indians of that region for another movement against the Iroquois.
— from Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 by William Dawson LeSueur

"I have been given a complete file upon the case along with orders to put you out of the way."
— from A Yankee Flier Over Berlin by Rutherford G. (Rutherford George) Montgomery

"By all that is holy." "Then mark me, Cesarini; if to-morrow Lady Florence be worse, I will throw no obstacle in the way of your confession, should you resolve to make it; I will even use that influence which you leave me, to palliate your offence, to win your pardon.
— from Ernest Maltravers — Volume 09 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I can myself bear testimony to the fact that you have a practical social service, combined with practical religion, that appeals to multitudes of men who are not reached by the regular churches; and I know that you were able to put your organization to work in France before the end of the first month of the World War.
— from The War Romance of the Salvation Army by Grace Livingston Hill

The depressed state of trade in this and the preceding year, owing to serious apprehensions of war, had caused a great diminution in the importation and manufacture of goods, so that much anxiety prevailed.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 1 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

Whether you call me Dunce or Doctor, whether you like me, or lick me, contemn, jerk, or praise me, you will still find me the same merry Monarch I was before you did me the Honour to put yourself out of Humour about me," etc.
— from Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles by Daniel Hack Tuke

When I entered, Lucius rose, and Amroth said to me: "Here I am again, you see, and wondering whether you can regain the pleasure you once were kind enough to take in my company?" "What nonsense!"
— from The Child of the Dawn by Arthur Christopher Benson

Can you get across to the Island all right in the fog, or shall I ask Varco to pilot you over?"
— from The Scouts of Seal Island by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

This phrase, "Yet once more," signifies the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain. 012:028
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Hebrews by Anonymous