"Therefore your end is on you, Is on you and your kings, Not for a fire in Ely fen, Not that your gods are nine or ten,
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

You perhaps think that your empire extends only over your allies; I will declare to you the truth.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

"It's the silliest trick you ever saw," he said, "but it's very useful for breathing and singing in the water.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

You asked for frankness, Mr. Holmes, and I have taken you at your word, for I have now told you everything without an attempt at circumlocution or concealment.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Now is the time in all your lives, probably, when you may have more wide influence for good or evil on the society you live in than you ever can have again.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Except, my dear Georgiana—and what will you think of this!—that he is infinitely shyer than you, and far more afraid of you than you ever were of any one in all your days!' In perturbation of mind Miss Podsnap still fumed and plucked at her hands a little, but could not help laughing at the notion of anybody's being afraid of her.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

The Undersigned has in the meantime to inform Your Excellency, with a view that you may bring the same to the knowledge of His Majesty the Tycoon, who will doubtless make the same known to the Mikado, that the indiscreet communication now made through Your Excellency is unparalleled in the history of all nations, civilized or uncivilized; that it is, in fact, a declaration of war by Japan itself against the whole of the Treaty Powers, and the consequences of which, if not at once arrested, it will have to expiate by the severest and most merited chastisement.
— 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

I tell you everybody went
— from Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School by Dorothy Whitehill

In conclusion, permit me to tender Your Excellency my acknowledgments for the readiness with which you have acceded to my various suggestions in carrying out the arrangements of the Expedition since the passing of the vote of money in aid by the local legislature.
— from Journals of Australian Explorations by Francis Thomas Gregory

Keep the key in your pocket, Sir Walter; and do not go there yourself either.
— from The Grey Room by Eden Phillpotts

I shall do all I can to be of service to you, even though you said that it was not in my power to serve you."
— from In the Palace of the King: A Love Story of Old Madrid by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

CHAPTER IV Allan Clare was just two years elder than Rosamund.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

"I fear," he said in conclusion, "that I have troubled your Excellency too long, but to the fulfilment of my duty and discharge of my conscience I could not be more brief.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1618 by John Lothrop Motley

Now the league of friendship being concluded between the two nations, I hold myself obliged to make this salutation to your Excellence.
— from A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. by Bulstrode Whitlocke

I shall have to lie, and I would not that your ears should hear me."
— from Barbarossa, and Other Tales by Paul Heyse

But before I can tell you exactly how I came to meet with Mr. Barton, I must tell you of my life before that time.
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume