Yes, Socrates, he said, and if you were providing for a city of pigs, how else would you feed the beasts?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

“I told you,” said he—“I told you you had sp'iled your Bible.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

Yes. SOCRATES: Have the wise man and the fool, the brave and the coward, joy and pain in nearly equal degrees?
— from Gorgias by Plato

Tottering among them was the rival color bearer, whom the youth saw had been bitten vitally by the bullets of the last formidable volley.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

"I am very sorry, sir," said I, with assumed tranquility, but an inward tremor, "but, really, the man you allude to is nothing to me—he is no relation or apprentice of mine, that you should hold me responsible for him."
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

"For know ye," said he, "that, in the first place, they will take your sons away from you, and they will command some of them to be drivers of their chariots, and some to be their horsemen, and the guards of their body, and others of them to be runners before them, and captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds; they will also make them their artificers, makers of armor, and of chariots, and of instruments; they will make them their husbandmen also, and the curators of their own fields, and the diggers of their own vineyards; nor will there be any thing which they will not do at their commands, as if they were slaves bought with money.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[He reads] “If at any time you should have need of my life, come and take it.” TREPLIEFF picks up the bandage off the floor and goes out.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Have you seen him make himself breathless on the big bell on a grand Pentecost festival!
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

I urged you not to do so, but you yielded to your own pride, and dishonoured a hero whom heaven itself had honoured—for you still hold the prize that had been awarded to him.
— from The Iliad by Homer

He wrote the following letter:— “Madame: Your son has stolen a sum of money from the honest and hard-working man with whom he lived.
— from Jack 1877 by Alphonse Daudet

What ails you, Step Hen?”
— from The Boy Scouts Along the Susquehanna; or, The Silver Fox Patrol Caught in a Flood by Carter, Herbert, active 1909-1917

“Where did you see her?”
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

"You see," he began again, "the point is just here.
— from The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident by Edgar Saltus

As Young spoke he thrust his hand into one of the earthen jars, and thereby set flying such a cloud of dust that for some seconds his violent sneezing prevented him from examining the small object that he had brought forth from the jar and held in his hand; and when he did examine this object an expression of intense disgust appeared upon his face, and he exclaimed, indignantly, "Why, it's nothin' but a fool arrow-head!"
— from The Aztec Treasure-House by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

"I saw everything, as you shall hear.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

"Why did you stay here?"
— from Shaman by Robert Shea

"I don't think I need trouble you," said he; "I never drink claret, at least not here; and there's enough of the old bin left to last some little time longer yet."
— from Doctor Thorne by Anthony Trollope

You, sir, have written with an able pen the deeds of our forefathers; the more to be desired is it, therefore, that yourself should deserve honorable mention as a true patriot and upright ruler when your own doings shall be written down in history.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne