He adopts her, makes her his own, is ready to share his own glory with the youthful renown of Négroni.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

If you wish to know the complaint I make against you, it is, in so many plain words, that you really ought not to go into Society unless you can accommodate yourself to Society.’
— from Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens

That's what made me take a shine to you, right off." Norman Hazzard blew more smoke through his pipe, and grinned to himself, and even gave an abrupt little laugh aloud, shifting on the instant to an air of grave imperturbability.
— from The Deserter, and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars by Harold Frederic

I have, I think, made it sufficiently clear that you really ought not to encourage Polito in his recklessness.”
— from Leon Roch: A Romance, vol. 1 (of 2) by Benito Pérez Galdós

Back —Inset slip of yellow paper announcing the serialization in “All the Year Round” of Never Forgotten , by the author of Belladonna .
— from Excursions in Victorian Bibliography by Michael Sadleir

Never was there more excitement in political circles than when this young representative of no important political organization whatsoever arrived at the State capitol and walked, at the appointed time, into the private audience room of the commission.
— from Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser

For you know, you look so much older than you actually are that you really ought not to throw away any more opportunities.
— from The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

A most interesting account of the ghyll, giving certain of the adventures that explorers have encountered, may be read in ‘All the Year Round’ of November, 1884.
— from Rock-climbing in the English Lake District Third Edition by Owen Glynne Jones