Ever since her arrival in the Jung mansion, dowager lady Chia showed her the highest sympathy and affection, so that in everything connected with sleeping, eating, rising and accommodation she was on the same footing as Pao-yü; with the result that Ying Ch'un, Hsi Ch'un and T'an Ch'un, her three granddaughters, had after all to take a back seat.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

William, you are quite out of luck; but the next time you come, I hope dear Mr. and Mrs. Rushworth will be at home, and I am sure I can answer for your being kindly received by both.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Till you came here she was in the position of hundreds of other women, who marry men without being greatly attracted to them or greatly repelled by them, and who learn to love them (when they don't learn to hate!)
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Those moans express in the first place all the aimlessness of your pain, which is so humiliating to your consciousness ; the whole legal system of nature on which you spit disdainfully, of course, but from which you suffer all the same while she does not.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You surely do not fancy that you can set them free?
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

There are no visitors, no fuss nor hurry either, so that you can’t help seeing, feeling, hearing nothing but the haymaking.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

‘Don’t mind it more than you can help,’ said Mr. Omer.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

You'd get the first thing that we thought you could do.”
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

“I will get you the best masters, and in that time you can perfect your dancing, and will be able to ask for a first-class appointment, with a salary of five hundred sequins a year.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Benjamin Allison, the youngest, came to Adolphustown in 1795.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

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— from My Crochet Sampler by Miss (F.) Lambert

"Have you any reason so far to complain of my conduct toward you?" "Complain?
— from The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

These words, I told you, carry in them a double argument for confirmation of the truth asserted before: first, that professors are here particularly pointed at; and, secondly, it is the saying of the Truth himself: for these words, "I say," are words full of authority; I say it, I say unto you, says Christ, as he saith in another place, "It is I that speak; behold it is I!"
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

If any one is in trouble, then you come directly."
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

“I told a different tale to yon captain man; but this is the truth of it.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 10 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Only you could accomplish it: you not only have beauty and brains—and tact?—but you are so apart that you can pick and choose without fear of giving offence.
— from Senator North by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

I've got some information I think you can use.
— from The Women-Stealers of Thrayx by Fox B. Holden