Let me tell you that I am the mayor, and if you do not get out of here pretty quickly I shall have you arrested.” Randel, who was getting angry, replied: “Have me arrested if you like; I should prefer it, for, at any rate, I should not die of hunger.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

But I know that the young lady is sly (Paul de Kock for ever under her pillow); I am certain she scurries off somewhere on the sly....
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“DON'T you like it?” said Peter, again, while his sisters patted Mrs. Perks on the back.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Madam, 'tis sure; I know your ladyship Is so possess'd.
— from A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 12 by Robert Dodsley

The young lodgers in such places live by thieving and pocket-picking, or by prostitution.
— from The White Slaves of England by John C. Cobden

Ah, young ladies, if some people had (as it is perhaps well for them that they have not) the ordering of this same British nation, they would certainly follow your example, and try to restore various ancient institutions.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

"You said you liked it," she protested.
— from Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne

With your leave I should prefer to go out that way, as my newly acquired property seems tired, and for one day has had enough of public notice.
— from Pearl-Maiden: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

"Since the young lady is so persistent, you had better show her in.
— from The Golden Web by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim