Will you allow me to ask you if it’s always as black as this?’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

“Yes, it is I, Rodolphe.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

‘You had better be careful how you indulge in such jokes again,’ said Nicholas, ‘or you may find an allusion to pulling noses rather a dangerous reminder for the subject of your facetiousness.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

If I come to you, it is on quite other grounds.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Sir W. Coventry agreed with me, so as to say, that unless the King hath the wealth of the Mogul, he would be a beggar to have his businesses ordered in the manner they now are: that his garrisons must be made places only of convenience to particular persons that he hath moved the Duke of York in it; and that it was resolved to send no Governor thither till there had been Commissioners sent to put the garrison in order, so as that he that goes may go with limitations and rules to follow, and not to do as he please, as the rest have hitherto done.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You are my son, then, I’ll tell you; and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

When your ingratitude Is judge, I am so. FERDINAND.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Yes, it is a bore to be engaged!
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

That’s incomprehensible: yet is it not so?
— from Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) by George Borrow

It is true that if all business men would altogether discard it, matters would probably be far better even for them than they are; but, taking the human character as it is, it is frankly avowed by business men themselves that no business could succeed for a single year if it were to attempt single-handed and alone to adopt such an innovation.
— from The Spirit of American Government A Study Of The Constitution: Its Origin, Influence And Relation To Democracy by J. Allen (James Allen) Smith

"Oh, it is you, is it?"
— from Wild Margaret by Charles Garvice

Yes, I intend to go with you to Paris—and I shall go.
— from Monsieur Lecoq, v. 2 by Emile Gaboriau

Yes, it is a scheme thought out with diabolical ingenuity.
— from Through Russia by Maksim Gorky

And yet it is upon the evidence of this fossil record that most of our knowledge of the history of the plant kingdom is based.
— from Botany: The Science of Plant Life by Norman Taylor

And yet it is well that once in a while New York should assert herself—that she should celebrate herself—that she should rest from her mighty labors, if only for a moment, to contemplate her own great work.
— from Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

And yet it is not an uncommon thing to find sweet and innocent girls, singularly untouched by the evil around them, true wives and faithful mothers, literally “like jewels in a swine’s snout,” in the worst of the infamous barracks.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

and she was grateful to him for his forbearance, for the tacit kindness of which the idea seemed to be: "My poor child, I'd prefer you if I could; but—judge for yourself—how can I?
— from The Tragic Muse by Henry James

Yes, indeed I am, Oswald; am I not? OSWALD.
— from Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen