Thank you, Sir, and I wish you the same," into two blank-verse heroics:— To you a morning good, good Sir!
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The other answered that it belonged to their king: I will go with you to see him and then you may ask him for his name yourself.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

These tears, which you think so little worthy of your attention, give rise to the first relation between man and his environment; here is forged the first link in the long chain of social order.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The light was yet there, shining dim but constant through the rain.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

“‘How well you talk!’ said the Miller’s Wife, pouring herself out a large glass of warm ale; ‘really I feel quite drowsy.
— from The Happy Prince, and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde

"I want you to set a new fashion: you know you can set almost any you choose in your own circle; for people are very like sheep, and will follow their leader if it happens to be one they fancy.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

This second crystallisation is almost entirely absent from the passions inspired by women who yield too soon.
— from On Love by Stendhal

“Why will you think so?
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“That’s just what I did do, for I wanted you to see that I implied it; I exerted myself chiefly for your sake, for I caught you and wanted to compromise you, above all I wanted to find out how far you’re afraid.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

While yet they spoke, in quest of arms again To the high chamber stole the faithless swain, Not unobserved.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

And it is what you can do, Hanrahan,' she said, 'put him into a rhyme the same way you put old Peter Kilmartin in one the time you were young, that sorrow may be over him rising up and lying down, that will put him thinking of Collooney churchyard and not of marriage.
— from Stories of Red Hanrahan by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

To go before winter had snatched the gold mantle from the limbs of autumn, to go while yet the sun was high and the long day stretched before us, languorous, beautiful.
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day

Why I do not wish you to search for him is that thereby you might find out things about me that I do not wish you to do.
— from The Weapons of Mystery by Joseph Hocking

Burke's attitude was obsolete even while he wrote; yet the suggestiveness of his very errors makes examination of their ground important.
— from Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Harold Joseph Laski

Alice wishes you to say good-bye for her to her good friends Mr and Mrs Toomey.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

"It is not your business, and I want you to shut up!"
— from The Last Cruise of the Spitfire; or, Luke Foster's Strange Voyage by Edward Stratemeyer

“Hugh, if this was happening over at our town, I warrant you the scouts would have something to say before now about that same thing.
— from The Boy Scouts in the Great Flood by Robert Shaler

It lies with you to say whether I shall change; and if you drive me to it, I'll...." I left the terrible sentence unfinished; and the change in the man's manner shewed me how he was inwardly shrinking and wincing at my desperate words.
— from By Right of Sword by Arthur W. Marchmont

Amusing and remarkable to the strangers was the evident pride of this committee in the city, to which they had come from all parts of the country if not of the world; yet they spoke of it with a lover’s affection.
— from Introducing the American Spirit by Edward Alfred Steiner

I want you to see me."
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler