"You are too young to give up your studies altogether, Rilla." "Oh, mother will put me through a course of reading next winter.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

‘Justice or no justice,’ said the young fellow, ‘here I am and here I shall stop till such time as I think fit to go, unless you send for assistance to put me out—which you won’t do, I know.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

This Fencing Master seems to get under your skin.
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

Presently someone asked— 'Any boat gone up?' 'Yes, sah.'
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

To give up your society would be to deprive myself of the greatest pleasure of my life.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Simonides must have been a lunatic, if, in the very first words of the poem, wanting to say only that to become good is hard, he inserted (Greek) 'on the one hand' ('on the one hand to become good is hard'); there would be no reason for the introduction of (Greek), unless you suppose him to speak with a hostile reference to the words of Pittacus.
— from Protagoras by Plato

It's all you'll get until you stop being a common idiot.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

And indeed if you will supply the defects of this translation, with your own diligence and good understanding: you shall not need to trust him, you may prove yourselves, that there is no prophane study better than Plutarch.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Give us your side.”
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Ah, Miss Brunel, when I see you take a gun upon your shoulder, and march into the forest with us—like Diana, you know——" He looked at her with the admiring smile of an elderly Adonis.
— from In Silk Attire: A Novel by William Black

Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 2: Exodus by Anonymous

"What have you been doing?" "Tending thrashing-machine and wimbling haybonds, and saying "Hoosh!" to the cocks and hens when they go upon your seeds and planting Early Flourballs and Thompson's Wonderfuls with a dibble." "Yes — I see.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Lord D.: Purify your court! Capt. Corc: Get up your steam and cut your canvas short!
— from The Complete Plays of Gilbert and Sullivan by Arthur Sullivan

Simp did bring us here for a purpose, and that's no lie. Give us your scheme, Simp.
— from The Stampeder by Samuel Alexander White

He watches you by day with his eye, the sun; at night, he gazes upon your sleeping countenance through the moon.
— from Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman

And Family Cortin's guest, until your superiors require you to return to your duties.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

[C] Col. 4:1; "Ye masters, give unto your servants that which is just and equal."
— from Three Prize Essays on American Slavery by R. B. (Richard Bowers) Thurston

Me'ogany's going up, you see, that's how."
— from Once a Week by A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne

You, Epicurus, ended by making God unarmed; you stripped him of all weapons, of all power, and, lest anyone should fear him, you banished him out of the world.
— from L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca