"What can I do for you, M. Paul Emanuel?"
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Knotgrass, Mallows, Yarrow, Moneywort, Plantain, Endive, Succory, Lettice, Purslain, Water Lilies, Houseleek or Sengreen.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

And by contracts you mean partnerships? Exactly.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“You may perhaps even believe you’re safe—from wishing to be.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

'For my part, I have too much kindness to them both, not to endeavour to prevent it, if I can; and for this reason I have sent her out of his way for a little while, till I can bring them both to better consideration; and I would not, therefore, have you be surprised you don't see your daughter so soon as you might possibly expect.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

You must please excuse me, my dear fellow.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You mean?” “Peel Edgerton.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

True, you may say that, by exceeding caution, you may possibly escape these and the multitudinous other evil chances of life.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

It's queer—” “Montgomery,” said I, suddenly, as the outer door closed, “why has your man pointed ears?”
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

c. 33) that there were 5000 astrologers and soothsayers in the city of Cambaluc, adding—'they have a kind of Astrolabe , on which are inscribed the planetary signs, the hours, and critical points of the whole year'; Marco Polo, ed.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 (of 7) — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

As for my wife, I would you had her spirit, in such another, The third oth' world is yours, which with a Snaffle, You may pace easie, but not such a wife Enobar.
— from Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare

Attention must be given to them whenever they come if any progress is to be made in solving the question of the broadest and yet most practical education for the girl who must earn her living in trade.
— from The Making of a Trade School by Mary Schenck Woolman

I well remember when a young man, perhaps eighteen years old, standing on my native New England hills, working upon the highway with a young man three or four years older than myself.
— from Personal Experience of a Physician by John Ellis

The first thing the princess did on entering the palace was to send for the head cook and to order the repast for the Sultan When she had finished she suddenly added, "Besides the dishes I have mentioned there is one that you must prepare expressly for the Sultan, and that no one must touch but yourself.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

I recommend to you, in dying, those whom I have the most loved during my life—Keyserling, Jordan, Wartensleben, Hacke, who is a very honest man, Fredersdorf, and Eichel, in whom you may place entire confidence.
— from History of Frederick the Second, Called Frederick the Great. by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

Then, sinking back again, he added feebly: "If you see them oars o' mine, you might pick 'em up."
— from A Rogue by Compulsion An Affair of the Secret Service by Victor Bridges

“Well, sir, it would seem you have made a mistake; the inn is lower down the glen—you'll see a sign over the door-way.” The look which accompanied this insolent speech recalled at once to Frederick's mind the same figure he had seen in the glen; and, stung by impertinence from such a quarter, he replied— “Have no fear, young fellow; you may poach every acre for twenty miles round—I have not tracked you on that score.” “Poach!—tracked me!”
— from The O'Donoghue: Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago by Charles James Lever

E tambien diz que no pagare á los prior e frayles de Santa Engracia aquellos quatro mil sueldos que en cada un año les he yo mandado pagar en aquella receptoria fasta que yo les haya provehido en otra parte,
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 2 by Henry Charles Lea