Every Change in the Thought Demands a Change in the Voice-Pitch Whether the speaker follows the rule consciously, unconsciously, or subconsciously, this is the logical basis upon which all good voice variation is made, yet this law is violated more often than any other by public speakers.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

Before his return a decree had been passed authorising him to do so, at the instance of Kritias, the son of Kallaeschrus, who himself alludes to it in his poems, mentioning the service which he performed for Alkibiades in the following verse: "I moved your restoration by decree, And that you're home again you owe to me."
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

A voice interrupted me: "You cannot give orders to the People!"
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

About the founding of the city of Venice--say four hundred and fifty years after Christ--(for Venice is much younger than any other Italian city,) a priest dreamed that an angel told him that until the remains of St. Mark were brought to Venice, the city
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

“I too have had visions in my youth, Sybil, and not of the cloister, yet am I here.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

“That is very interesting, Mr. Young.
— from The Doctor : A Tale of the Rockies by Ralph Connor

Though this vase is many years earlier in date than the Birds of Aristophanes (414 B.C. ), yet it may serve to give us some idea of the appearance of the chorus in that play.
— from A Guide to the Exhibition Illustrating Greek and Roman Life by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities

"May it please the court," said the tall lawyer, who had remained standing, waiting for the tempest to subside, and who now spoke in a subdued voice, "I move your Honor, that the jury be instructed to render a verdict of 'Not guilty.'"
— from The Graysons: A Story of Illinois by Edward Eggleston

What say?" "Very interesting, my young friend!
— from Pippin; A Wandering Flame by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Altho' magnesia appears from this history of it to be a very innocent medicine, yet having observed, that some hypochondriacs who used it frequently, were subject to flatulencies and spasms, he seems to have suspected it of some noxious quality.
— from Experiments upon magnesia alba, Quicklime, and some other Alcaline Substances by Joseph Black

And, besides, I have got something to say to you that's important, very important, mind you.”
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He seems a very intelligent, modest young man; as little military as need be, and, like Coriolanus, not baring his wounds (if he has any) for public gaze.
— from Yesterdays with Authors by James Thomas Fields

I tol' you den I know not; I meet you only de twice—how I lofe ven I meet you only de
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish