Kanúnay man ku nímung palagútun, mahayblad (hayblarun) man lang ta, You always provoke me.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

"I may get into a scrape for telling; but I didn't promise not to, so I will, for I never feel easy in my mind till I've told you any plummy bit of news I get.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

“And didn’t Hippolyte tell you?” asked Prince Vasíli, turning to his son and seizing the little princess’ arm as if she would have run away and he had just managed to catch her, “didn’t he tell you how he himself was pining for the dear princess, and how she showed him the door?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And though there can be no doubt whatever that the most immediate effect of the Socratic impulse tended to the dissolution of Dionysian tragedy, yet a profound experience of Socrates' own life compels us to ask whether there is necessarily only an antipodal relation between Socratism and art, and whether the birth of an "artistic Socrates" is in general something contradictory in itself.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I think, by the way, that you are Prince Muishkin?
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I will likewise directly make over to you a purchase I lately made in Kent, which brings in 250l.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

“Nevertheless I think it is my duty to see that you are properly instructed in at least the rudiments of music.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

The younger, also plundering in her sport, Snipped out the grey hair, every bit.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

To cut the matter short—for we can’t go on talking for another thirty years as people have done for the last thirty—I ask you which you prefer: the slow way, which consists in the composition of socialistic romances and the academic ordering of the destinies of humanity a thousand years hence, while despotism will swallow the savoury morsels which would almost fly into your mouths of themselves if you’d take a little trouble; or do you, whatever it may imply, prefer a quicker way which will at last untie your hands, and will let humanity make its own social organisation in freedom and in action, not on paper?
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thomas Van Loan was for thirty years a partner in the firm of W.J. Stitt & Co. (William J. Stitt was in business at 173 Washington Street in the fifties).
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The first mine here opened in 1907, preceding the railroad which arrived late that year and providing the impetus for the town which grew up.
— from North Dakota: A Guide to the Northern Prairie State by Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the State of North Dakota

Henry Ware, Jr. graduated with high honors from Harvard in 1812, and after teaching for two years at Phillips Exeter Academy returned to Cambridge, to continue his theological studies.
— from American Unitarian Hymn Writers and Hymns by Henry Wilder Foote

The work of subjugating them was practically accomplished within eight or ten years after Pizarro landed in Ecuador, and this marvellous result was achieved by private adventurers who, though they held commissions from Madrid, really acted on their own responsibility.
— from The South American Republics, Part 2 of 2 by Thomas Cleland Dawson

Then she glanced toward you, and put down a note.
— from Foul Play by Dion Boucicault

The fair young man is beckoning to you and pointing to a big house and a motor-car and a yacht.”
— from Sailors' Knots (Entire Collection) by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

All human beings must in beauty yield To you; a Peri I have ne'er beheld.
— from The Fairy Mythology Illustrative of the Romance and Superstition of Various Countries by Thomas Keightley

The philosophy that teaches that the Universe is an illusion perpetrated by you (God) to amuse, entertain or fool yourself (God), can have but one result, and that is the conclusion that "everything is nothing," and all that is necessary to do is to sit down, fold your hands and enjoy the Divine exhibition of legerdemain that you are performing for your own entertainment, and then, when the show is over, return to your state of conscious Godhood and recall with smiles the pleasant memories of the "conjure show" that you created to fool yourself with during several billions of ages.
— from A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

763 Then let her talk about you; then let her add persuasive expressions; and let her swear that you are perishing with frantic passion.
— from Ars Amatoria; or, The Art Of Love Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes by Ovid

"The pride and pleasure which we feel from the behaviour of our gallant militia, is greatly heightened when we consider that their conduct is honoured with your approbation, and that you are pleased to testify your sense of their services in ordering clothing for a considerable proportion of [Pg lviii] their number; an act of benevolence and humanity which will make a deep and lasting impression on their minds; and stimulate them to preserve that high character which they have already acquired.
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

He was descended from one of the old French families of Louisiana; and had been, for nearly thirty years, a practising physician in the city of New Orleans, during which time he had accumulated a very handsome fortune.
— from Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue A Tale of the Mississippi and the South-west by Warren T. Ashton