“It was my own doing, not leaving the country, and nearly a year ago Marfa Petrovna gave me back the document on my name-day and made me a present of a considerable sum of money, too.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But after a pause he remarked: “You are making preparations?”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Thence I after dinner to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw “Sir Martin Mar-all;” which I have seen so often, and yet am mightily pleased with it, and think it mighty witty, and the fullest of proper matter for mirth that ever was writ; and I do clearly see that they do improve in their acting of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“I think that you are mistaken, Pencroft,” replied Gideon Spilett, “and that the wood of the eucalyptus has begun to be very advantageously employed in cabinet-making.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

But mayhappen they'll be lookin for ye at Mester Poyser's.”
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Our journey home was a prosperous one, and we set our foot on the quay at Southampton exactly two years from the date of our departure upon our wild and seemingly ridiculous quest, and I now write these last words with Leo leaning over my shoulder in my old room in my college, the very same into which some two-and-twenty years ago my poor friend Vincey came stumbling on the memorable night of his death, bearing the iron chest with him.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Now, you are distinctly to understand that you are most positively prohibited from making any inquiry on this head, or any allusion or reference, however distant, to any individual whomsoever as the individual, in all the communications you may have with me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

At length he rais’d his cheerful head, and spoke: “The pow’rs,” said he, “the pow’rs we both invoke, To you, and yours, and mine, propitious be, And firm our purpose with their augury!
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

[ This refers to an expression in Ducas, who, to heighten the effect of his description, speaks of the "sweet morning sleep resting on the eyes of youths and maidens," p. 288.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

And now I am going to tell you about my plan for an interview; though I might have spared my poor brains all the trouble, for it never did either of us a bit of good, in spite of all my scheming and management I told you that the downstairs doors were always locked now of a night, and that Miss Furness collected all the keys, so that it was quite out of the question to think of trying to get into either of the lower rooms to talk out of the window; so I thought, and thought, and thought, and puzzled, and puzzled, and puzzled, and bored my poor brains, till at last I remembered the empty room at the end of the passage.
— from A Fluttered Dovecote by George Manville Fenn

“Tell me who and what you are, my pretty boy,” said Nigel.—“Consider me, child, as a companion, who wishes to be kind to you, would you but teach him how he can be so.”
— from The Fortunes of Nigel by Walter Scott

I believe now that you are misinformed [Pg 216] as to the facts, but that is immaterial.
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

I shall expect you at my place whenever you please."
— from The Rush for the Spoil (La Curée): A Realistic Novel by Émile Zola

And though the judicial debarring of judicatories be not all, but it must be ruled by another rule, yet are we willing to take it for so much; for even that will prove there is yet a malignant party in Scotland, because many are standing under church censures [albeit we are sorry there is so much precipitancy and haste in taking off the censures].
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

"You are my prisoner."
— from The Viper of Milan: A Romance of Lombardy by Marjorie Bowen

“Then you are my prisoner.”
— from The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army: A Story of the Great Rebellion by Oliver Optic

“You astonish me; pray explain yourself.”
— from A. D. 2000 by Alvarado M. (Alvarado Mortimer) Fuller

"You are my prisoner!"
— from The Dispatch-Riders: The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman