“You are good, both of you,” said Jean Valjean.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“I put it to you that, anxious to prove an alibi, you conceived the idea of a fictitious and rather incredible appointment, and wrote this note yourself in order to bear out your statement!” “No.” “Is it not a fact that, at the time you claim to have been waiting about at a solitary and unfrequented spot, you were really in the chemist’s shop in Styles St. Mary, where you purchased strychnine in the name of Alfred Inglethorp?” “No, that is a lie.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

“Well, it’s too bad of you,” said mamma.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Yes: but in order to see into Space you ought to have an eye, not on your Perimeter, but on your side, that is, on what you would probably call your inside; but we in Spaceland should call it your side.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

Itself down rushes into such a cistern; And still perchance above appears the body Of yonder shade, that winters here behind me.
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

Call hither Clifford; bid him come amain, To say if that the bastard boys of York Shall be the surety for their traitor father.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If I once stir, Or do but lift this arm, the best of you Shall sink in my rebuke.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

79:2 They have given the dead bodies of your servants to be food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of your saints to the animals of the earth. 79:3 Their blood they have shed like water around Jerusalem.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

Bust of Youth. S. Ambrogio, Niche L. Monochromes: Angels, and medallions in predella .
— from The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance With An Index To Their Works by Bernard Berenson

"Blessings on your sweet pretty face, my lady!" cried an old voice.
— from Berry and Co. by Dornford Yates

The flowers, which are pure white with a bunch of yellow stamens, and sweet-scented, are produced usually in fives at the branch-tips, and contrast markedly with the long and light green foliage.
— from Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster

Go home and send the potatoes, and send some meat to cook with the potatoes, and send meal to make bread, to eat with the meat; and then may ye expect a blessing on yer soul."
— from A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, An Essay on Slavery by A. Woodward

I await a person I came to see; having no one to talk with, just now, before this gentleman placed himself between us, without wishing it, I assure you, I have heard you talk to your brother of your sorrows, of your children; I said to myself, poor folks ought to assist each other.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 03 by Eugène Sue

"What did you suppose was going to become of your sister and Paulette—left with Macartney when you'd disappeared, and the Halfway picket had got me ?"
— from The La Chance Mine Mystery by Susan Morrow Jones

Well, let me think now, I did meet Squire Ringwood, and he stopped his horse and said to me: 'Is that you, Malcolm Anderson, you rascal;' and I said, 'It's me, sure enough, squire;' and he said, 'You rascal, that last score of beasts I bought of you--'" "Silence!" shouted the magistrate as a titter ran through the court.
— from Bonnie Prince Charlie : a Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty