Now Bagaios thus gave the papers in order to make trial of the spearmen of the guard, whether they would accept the motion to revolt from Oroites; and seeing that they paid great reverence to the papers and still more to the words which were recited from them, he gave another paper in which were contained these words: "Persians, king Dareios forbids you to serve as guards to Oroites": and they hearing this lowered to him the points of their spears.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

'You two stand close here,' said Miss Abbey, 'and you'll come to no hurt, and see it brought in.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

If I or she should chance to be Involved in this affair, He trusts to you to set them free, Exactly as we were.
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Accordingly that the end of punishment, or more accurately of penal law, is the deterrence from crime, is a truth so generally recognised and indeed self-evident, that in England it is expressed in the very old form of indictment which is still served by the counsel for the Crown in criminal actions, for it concludes with the words, “If this be proved, you, the said N. N., ought to be punished with pains of law, to deter others from the like crimes in all time coming.”
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Old Glynn he knew how to make that instrument talk, the vibrato : fifty pounds a year they say he had in Gardiner street.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

So by and by to White Hall, and there to the Duke of York’s chamber, where I understand it is already resolved by the King and Duke of York that Shish shall have the place.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You loved him,"—he winced, as if hurt by his own words, but went on in the same voice,—"and God has been good in—in allowing you to spend fifty years together."
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

Then, for several years, there seems to have been no Treasurer.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

“No doubt you think so,” returned Marguerite, spiritedly.
— from A Rebellious Heroine by John Kendrick Bangs

I wanted you to see him before you went to town this morning.
— from The Gland Stealers by Bertram Gayton

But don't you think,' says I, 'that 'twas a little cool early in the morning; and ain't there a feeling of rain in the air to-night?
— from Sixes and Sevens by O. Henry

now listen!—if you will venture out on the limb as far as you think safe, and not let go the beetle, I’ll make you a present of a silver dollar as soon as you get down.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

But today—” “Yes, today?” she prompted anxiously.
— from The Lady of North Star by Ottwell Binns

“If such is your belief, my dear friend,” said Miss Parnell, “far be it from me to persuade you to stay.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie

She, like seraph gone astray, Must be shown the homeward way; Plant of heaven, she, rooted lowly, Must put forth a blossom holy, Must, through culture high and steady, Slow unfold a gracious lady; She must therefore live in wonder, See nought common up or under; She the moon and stars and sea, Worm and butterfly and bee, Yea, the sparkle in a stone, Must with marvel look upon; She must love, in heaven's own blueness, Both the colour and the newness; Must each day from darkness break, Often often come awake, Never with her childhood part, Change the brain, but keep the heart.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald