would they consider the noble motive of your retirement, or not rather think you had shut yourself up only to lament the condition to which my uncle's revenge had reduced you?
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Many cultivated plants display the utmost vigour, and yet rarely or never seed!
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

But what dangers you run, O noble souls!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"I did hear, too, that there was a time, when sermon-making was not so palatable to you as it seems to be at present; that you actually declared your resolution of never taking orders, and that the business had been compromised accordingly."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

You know yourself whether I was ever really your rival or not, even when she ran away and came to me.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We listened to their conversation for some time before we could make up our minds how to act, having as yet resolved on nothing determinate, except that we would attempt to paralyze their exertions, when we should attack them, by means of the apparition of Rogers.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

"So you have been making fun of me, then," said Miss Bürstner exceedingly disappointed, "you really ought not to try something like that on at this time of night."
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

“Back out, you rook of Nizhni Novgorod!”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

My learned lord, we pray you to proceed, And justly and religiously unfold Why the law Salique, that they have in France, Or should or should not bar us in our claim; And God forbid, my dear and faithful lord, That you should fashion, wrest, or bow your reading, Or nicely charge your understanding soul With opening titles miscreate whose right Suits not in native colours with the truth; For God doth know how many, now in health, Shall drop their blood in approbation Of what your reverence shall incite us to.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

You really ought not to: it is a sort of abduction!
— from Patrins To Which Is Added an Inquirendo Into the Wit & Other Good Parts of His Late Majesty King Charles the Second by Louise Imogen Guiney

You remember our nigger friend on the gourd?”
— from The Message by Louis Tracy

So, you see, I do not think a great deal of old year remorse or New Year resolutions.
— from Observations of a Retired Veteran by Henry C. Tinsley

"But I guess there isn't any disgrace in your going to New York, running or not, if you take her with you.
— from The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

But, you know, Alma, you really ought not to come at this time of day, for I am very busy just now cooking the dinner—an armadillo roasted and a couple of partridges stewed with rice, and a little omelette of turkeys’ eggs—I mean plovers’ eggs, of course; I never touch turkeys’ eggs.”
— from The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading by Frances Jenkins Olcott

He adopts her, makes her his own, is ready to share his own glory with the youthful renown of Négroni.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

"I am glad that you recognize our need," said Mr. Goodnight.
— from The Candidate: A Political Romance by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

"You really ought not."
— from Among the Meadow People by Clara Dillingham Pierson

Do you repent or not?
— from Plays by Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky