And so I wish you good-bye, Master Marner; and if you ever feel anyways bad in your inside, as you can't fend for yourself, I'll come and clean up for you, and get you a bit o' victual, and willing.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

I have been searching for you everywhere, for I have something important to say to you.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

You will move against the enemy with your entire force promptly and with all possible vigor at precisely 4 o'clock A.M. to-morrow the 12th inst.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Yet Eutropius, Festus, Rufus, the two Victors, Jerome, Sidonius Apollinaris, Syncellus, and Zonaras, all ascribe the death of Carus to lightning.
— 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 so has she done you, even from a child.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

But you will not be offended if I laugh at your excuses, for after what you have said I cannot help thinking them very laughable.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Only let me assure you, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that I can from my heart most cordially wish you equal felicity in marriage.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Yes, even friendship was possible.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

384. i.e. your good fortune will be threefold as great as your evil fortune.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

I spects you would be glad to run off, too, if yer old legs was young enuff fur to carry you."
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

And as for business, as it is your English fashion to call new things obstinately by old names, careless whether they apply or not, you may consider me as a recruiting-sergeant; which trade, indeed, I follow, though I am no more like the popular red-coated ones than your present “glorious constitution” is like William the Third’s, or Overbeck’s high art like Fra Angelico’s.
— from Yeast: a Problem by Charles Kingsley

"As for you," retorted father, "you are at your olde trick of arguing on y e wrong side, as you did y e firste time we mett.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

You will return to your place of business, and allow me to make your excuse for leaving without seeing her.’
— from The White Rose of Memphis by William C. (Clark) Falkner

His hair, which was of light brown, streaked with hues of gold, and hanging in silken waves to his shoulders, was parted in the middle, after the fashion of the day, and surmounted a low yet expansive forehead, sufficiently indicative of the depth of genius which lay beneath.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, March 1850 by Various

And there also, it must be confessed, was a certain faint yet expressive fragrance, which delicately intimated to one sense at least, before he made his appearance, the coming of Mr Foggo.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Vol. 1/3 by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

If ever you have had a romantic, uncalculating friendship—a boundless worship and belief in some hero of your soul; if ever you have so loved, that all cold prudence, all selfish worldly considerations, have gone down like drift-wood before a river flooded with new rain from heaven, so that you even forgot yourself, and were ready to cast your whole being into the chasm of existence, as an offering before the feet of another, and all for nothing,—if you awoke bitterly betrayed and deceived, still give thanks to God that you have had one glimpse of heaven.
— from The Minister's Wooing by Harriet Beecher Stowe

—Although the native literature of our period consists almost entirely of the begging-letters and reports in the Amarna Tablets, yet even from the language addressed to the human representative of the Sun-God, we may gain some idea of the intellectual environment, some hints, it may be, suggestive of the religious thought of the age.
— from The Religion of Ancient Palestine in the Second Millenium B.C. by Stanley Arthur Cook

Most gladly should I thank your Excellency for what you have done, and will do, in my behalf, could I invent words and terms fit for such thanks; but what can I, or what should I say to you?
— from Memoirs of the Dukes of Urbino, Volume 3 (of 3) Illustrating the Arms, Arts, and Literature of Italy, from 1440 To 1630 by James Dennistoun

[24] "The home of my wedded years, exceeding fair, filled with all the goods of life, which even in dreams methinks I shall remember."
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds