76 Ansten Nattestad, of whom below, took it with him to Norway that year and got it printed in Christiania.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

The Tsar addressed the officers also: “I thank you all, gentlemen, I thank you with my whole heart.”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Also, at this merry season, good things of the year are gathered in in great store.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

“The nonsense and folly of people's stepping out of their rank and trying to appear above themselves, makes me think it right to give you a hint, Fanny, now that you are going into company without any of us; and I do beseech and entreat you not to be putting yourself forward, and talking and giving your opinion as if you were one of your cousins—as if you were dear Mrs. Rushworth or Julia.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

A civil war might last twenty or thirty years, and greatly impoverish the country, while it would afford an opportunity to foreign powers to appropriate bits of Japanese territory by aiding one party against the other.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

“'Then you are going in—into her room?'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“I’ll take you all, get in!”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And on the Shere-Thursday make they their Therf bread, in token of the Maundy, and dry it at the sun, and keep it all the year, and give it to sick men, instead of God’s body.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The maids in soft simars of linen dress'd; The youths all graceful in the glossy vest: Of those the locks with flowery wreath inroll'd; Of these the sides adorn'd with swords of gold, That glittering gay, from silver belts depend.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I have taken note that you are greatly interested in Miss Budthorne.
— from Dick Merriwell Abroad; Or, The Ban of the Terrible Ten by Burt L. Standish

"But it's a relief to tell you and get it off my mind; to tell you and yet not have you think that I ought to be locked up."
— from The Rest Hollow Mystery by Rebecca N. (Rebecca Newman) Porter

Presently Mr. Denny said: "I presume, Mr. Franklin, that you are greatly interested in your school studies?" "Yes, sir.
— from The Galaxy Vol. 23, No. 1 by Various

"If I am the 'Fairy of the Woods,' then you are 'Grazioso' in 'The Castle of Youth,'" she laughed, allowing her own hands to rest for the space of a second in those of her former acquaintance.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Across the Seas by Margaret Vandercook

It is only when she realized at last that you are growing importunate that she stirs herself and protests.
— from Seductio Ad Absurdum The Principles & Practices of Seduction, A Beginner's Handbook by Emily Hahn

I will recommend to your attentive perusal, now that you are going into the world, two books, which will let you as much into the characters of men, as books can do.
— from Letters to His Son, 1748 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

"I know all that you would say, Angel; I know that you are good; I know that our people, although they have many faults, are trying to do right, and I believe that the people in other sects around us are far more wicked, but—Mr. Finney is not like that."
— from The Mormon Prophet by L. (Lily) Dougall

"I wager you that I will find one among my maidens here who will turn you from your purpose of leaving us; lure you into more than content to abandon your search; and make you pour into her own pretty ears a confession that you are glad I caused you to dally here—and all this within three days.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

" "Then you admit that you are guilty?" "I admit that I had some fun, at your expense, yes," answered Bob Bangs.
— from Randy of the River; Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand by Alger, Horatio, Jr.