Yátì ning bat-ána uy, Darn, this child is a nuisance.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And viewing the matter in the light of justice, I immediately reflected: “Would you not be provoked if one of your own beasts were to deprive you of its services, 460 or were even to run away when you called it, a horse, or sheep, or calf, as the case might be?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

It comes from th’ambassador that was bound for England; if your name be Horatio, as I am let to know it is.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You need be under no apprehensions.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

She kept on saying: "What a dreadful pity; you never by any chance come in the afternoon, and the one time you do come then I miss you."
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

"He then brought from a cupboard a most curious instrument, and before I could realize what had happened I found myself thrown upon a screen in a highly-magnified state—even as you now behold me.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

My barren heart yielded nothing but a feeble zeal and a lukewarm love of truth.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

And, well remembering what we were, I say it, plain and flat, I'll change to no such state as that.' Next to the wolf the princely Greek With flattering hope began to speak:-- 'Comrade, I blush, I must confess, To hear a gentle shepherdess Complaining to the echoing rocks Of that outrageous appetite Which drives you, night by night, To prey upon her flocks.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

If ye meddle nae mair wi' the matter, Ye may hae some pretence to havins and sense, Wi' people that ken ye nae better, Barr Steenie!^10
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

I rode over to bid the Pantler farewell, in the hope that when he saw his faithful partisan, his former friend, a man almost of his own household, with whom he had caroused and made war for so many long years, now bidding him farewell and riding off to the ends of the earth—that the old man might be moved and show me at least a trace of a human soul, as a snail shows its horns!
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

"Na, na, gudeman, ye needna be sae mim; every body kens, and I ken too, that ye're ettling at the magistracy.
— from The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop

You will see them among the flamencas of Seville, or in the gipsy quarter of the Camino p. 25 del Sacro Monte at Granada—women with slow, sinuous movements, which you notice best when you see them dance, and wonderful eyes that flash a slow fire, quite unforgettable in their strange beauty.
— from Things seen in Spain by C. Gasquoine (Catherine Gasquoine) Hartley

"You never believed that,—not for an instant."
— from Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes by James Branch Cabell

The popular belief that he is passing with a great noise through space when the winds sweep across the vast moors on stormy nights probably embodies the old tradition of some powerful lord whose hounds and huntsmen ruined the crops of the poor, who, in their wrath, consigned them to endless barren hunting-fields in the spirit-land—a legend which reminds us of the Aasgaardsreja of whom Miss Bremer tells us—spirits not good enough to merit heaven, and yet not bad enough to deserve hell, and are therefore doomed to ride about till the end of the world, carrying fear and disaster in their train.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 22, October, 1875, to March, 1876 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"I'm sure I hope not," he said, "but if it does, we are not to give him up at the end of five years; nor before five years, that is certain."
— from Little Fishers: and Their Nets by Pansy

A party was just setting off to see how you had fared when your native boy arrived with your note, and it was a great relief to us to know that you had repulsed their attack with such heavy loss to them; I am afraid that several others have not fared so well.
— from Maori and Settler: A Story of The New Zealand War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

You sold me a rapier, did you not? Brai.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

It was pitilessly set upon and robbed, and one of the number, a Jew from York, named Benedict, was so badly hurt in the course of the rioting, that he reached home only to die of his wounds.
— from Outlines of Jewish History from B.C. 586 to C.E. 1885 by Magnus, Katie, Lady

Paine, who was in America when the affair occurred at Lexington, would have promptly denounced Gage's story as a falsehood, but the facts known to every one in America were as yet not before the London writer.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The American Crisis by Thomas Paine

Put down that chair, it is words for you, not blows.
— from The Cricket by Marjorie Benton Cooke