'I'm going, Wegg,' he then announced, 'to take a turn about the place and round the yard.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Anyway, you’d better make a note of such phrases, and remember them, you know, in case you have to talk.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Because in the preceding section I have made mention of good counsel, comfortable speeches, persuasion, how necessarily they are required to the cure of a discontented or troubled mind, how present a remedy they yield, and many times a sole sufficient cure of themselves; I have thought fit in this following section, a little to digress (if at least it be to digress in this subject), to collect and glean a few remedies, and comfortable speeches out of our best orators, philosophers, divines, and fathers of the church, tending to this purpose.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

A blessed woman.” The prioress paused, moved her lips, as though in mental prayer, and resumed:— “Three years ago, Madame de Béthune, a Jansenist, turned orthodox, merely from having seen Mother Crucifixion at prayer.” “Ah!
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

"But she pawned a ring to you," said Annie; "an old-fashioned gold ring with one big diamond in the middle.
— from Red Rose and Tiger Lily; Or, In a Wider World by L. T. Meade

No delight have they in sighs and tears, but are ever inclinable to prayers, and ready to yield to the solicitations of Love.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

Philip, the elder, is very comfortably placed at R——; the younger has his home with me; and Mrs. Morton is a moth—that is to say, she takes great pains with him.
— from Night and Morning, Volume 2 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"H'lo, kiddo," he said to Pee-wee Harris as he passed and ruffled that young gourmand's hair.
— from Tom Slade's Double Dare by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Our faces Are turned to a new Kebla, a new truth, Proclaimed by the one God of all the nations To save His people and renew their youth.
— from Secret History of the English Occupation of Egypt Being a Personal Narrative of Events by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

If he lives and you will give up your practice and retire to your ranch or what business pleases you, I will guarantee that he does not prosecute you for what has passed.
— from The Bells of San Juan by Jackson Gregory

Viscount Palmerston does not submit to your Majesty the name of any person for the office of Secretary at War, as he proposes that that office shall merge in the office of Secretary of State for the War Department, and Viscount Palmerston suspends for the present any recommendation to your Majesty for the office of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, as that office may be made available for giving strength either in the House of Lords or in the House of Commons according to circumstances.
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

He traced the circuit as he spoke, then paused and remarked, "Thus, you see, it is possible to measure the carbon dioxide and the other respiration products.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

Her hopes were doubtless high, for gallant looked the army that was to do battle in her cause, and well provided were the Lancastrians with the artillery which had, in the previous autumn, rendered the Yorkists so formidable at Ludlow.
— from The Wars of the Roses; or, Stories of the Struggle of York and Lancaster by John G. (John George) Edgar