If you should have no objection to receive me into your house, I propose myself the satisfaction of waiting on you and your family, Monday, November 18th, by four o'clock, and shall probably trespass on your hospitality till the Saturday se'ennight following, which I can do without any inconvenience, as Lady Catherine is far from objecting to my occasional absence on a Sunday, provided that some other clergyman is engaged to do the duty of the day.—I remain, dear sir, with respectful compliments to your lady and daughters, your well-wisher and friend, “WILLIAM COLLINS”
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Lady Audley, did you ever study the theory of circumstantial evidence?
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

At length a daring young man, a member of an influential family, organized a conspiracy among the people for the massacre of the priesthood.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Make you ready, said the knight Lanceor, and dress you unto me, for that one shall abide in the field.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

"You girls shouldn't also pretend to be artful flatterers to cajole me!" nurse Li added; "do you imagine that I'm not aware of the dismissal, the other day, of Hsi Hsüeh, on account of a cup of tea?
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

“If Missis would come and look at dis yer lot o’ poetry.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The door-keeper will pass the note to Mr. Lorry, and do you make any gesture that will attract Mr. Lorry's attention, and show him where you stand.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

"Won't it mean anything to you to know that people loathe and despise you?"
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

A mountain ledge, a well-balanced load, a driver you can trust to let you pick your own way, and I’m your mule.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

Listen, Alyosha, do you know I shall spy upon you as soon as we are married, and let me tell you I shall open all your letters and read them, so you may as well be prepared.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

How long afterwards do you suppose I shall be alive?”
— from The Exiles of Faloo by Barry Pain

Previenense caballos y libreas, ajustanse divisas y colores: a aquel adornan joyas y preseas, este copia al escudo sus amores, Quanto oro dan las minas Européas, y quantos brotan en Oriente olores, eran a la lucida compañia adorno, gusto, brillo y bizarria, &c. 611 This collection which has been so frequently alluded to in the course of the present work, is entitled:— Theatro Hespañol, por Don Vicente Garcia de la Huerta , Madrid, 1785, sq. in 16 volumes, small octavo.
— from History of Spanish and Portuguese Literature (Vol 1 of 2) by Friedrich Bouterwek

[Pg 99] doomed by Providence, if not primarily by the Creator himself, to a low and degrading yoke, and utterly incapable of entertaining lofty sentiments, or rising to a higher position; to be restrained therefore in every manifestation of impatience lest they should temporarily gain the upper hand, and lay waste the fair fields of civilization; and to be kept under for the safety of society, if not for their own safety, by social burdens and the depressing influences of disregard and contempt.
— from Conversion of a High Priest into a Christian Worker by M. (Meletios) Golden

The sleep into which I now sunk refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect upon what had passed with greater composure; yet still the words of the fiend rung in my ears like a death-knell, they appeared like a dream, yet distinct and oppressive as a reality.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

long ago ... do you remember how You hailed Him king for soldiers to deride-- You placed a scroll above His bleeding brow
— from The Centralia Conspiracy by Ralph Chaplin

But the Chub being thus used, and dressed presently; and not washed after he is gutted, for note, that lying long in water, and washing the blood out of any fish after they be gutted, abates much of their sweetness; you will find the Chub, being dressed in the blood, and quickly, to be such meat as will recompense your labour, and disabuse your opinion.
— from The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton