In other words, I found it just where your respectable Mr. Brayne threw it when he ran away.”
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

When you make up your mind that you are done with poverty forever; that you will have nothing more to do with it; that you are going to erase every trace of it from your dress, your personal appearance, your manner, your talk, your actions, your home; that you are going to show the world your real mettle; that you are no longer going to pass for a failure; that you have set your face persistently toward better things—a competence, an independence—and that nothing on earth can turn you from your resolution, you will be amazed to find what a reenforcing power will come to you, what an increase of confidence, reassurance, and self-respect.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

We were able to prove the contrary, and that proof we are ready to give to your majesty, calling in support of it the august widow weeping in the Louvre, where your royal munificence has provided for her a home.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

'I think I should like to know all about them, if I were you,' replied Margaret quietly.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, of what you really might be.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"The moment I met you I saw that you were quite unconscious of what you really are, what you really might be.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

What does he mean? Do, as a concession to my poor wits, Lord Darlington, just explain to me what you really mean.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

"What you really mean is the desert.
— from The Invader: A Novel by Margaret L. (Margaret Louisa) Woods

“The next time, you might mention that among the reasons why you refused Mr. Neston was, that he never asked you.”
— from Mr. Witt's Widow: A Frivolous Tale by Anthony Hope

"I have," she said, "a trusty and faithful servant with me in the castle, to whom I can, without anxiety, confide the charge of your safety; and even if suspected by the way, my name, and the companionship of my servant, will remove all obstacles; it is not a long journey hence to Guadix, which has already revolted to the Moors: there, till the armies of Ferdinand surround the walls, your refuge may be secure."
— from Leila or, the Siege of Granada, Book IV. by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

I will put my fuddle into the canoe, an’ my sister she will pe ready at wance.—Wass you ready, Martha?”
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Will you remember me?”
— from The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

If there are prayer-meetings in the place where you reside, make it a matter of conscience to attend them.
— from A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister by Harvey Newcomb

“What you really meant was: `If it does kill you, what of it?’”
— from The Flirt by Booth Tarkington

[Pg 262] accordingly sprang to his feet; but what his consternation was, you, reader, may judge.
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 33, February 13, 1841 by Various