Oh, it was a good figure observed, sir: but did you all this, captain, without hurting your blade? Bob.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

and you would be right, my friend; for in losing him you would lose your barony, which you have in your grasp, to say nothing of the fact that, were he once out of this, Mazarin would have you hanged.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Wild Dog crawled into the Cave and laid his head on the Woman’s lap, and said, ‘O my Friend and Wife of my Friend, I will help Your Man to hunt through the day, and at night I will guard your Cave.’
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

It is a portion of their history which should be deeply studied by those who have succeeded to the paramount power; for Aurangzeb had less reason to distrust the stability of his dominion than we have: yet what is now the house of Timur?
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

52 The Greek emperor was humbled by adversity; and would have yielded to any terms compatible with religion and royalty.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

About four years ago, passing incognito by this country, I endeavoured to make a peace, or at least a long truce among them; and I had certainly brought them to be good friends and neighbours if both one and the other parties would have yielded to one single article.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Why, how you talk.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

`For-thy take hede of that that I shal seye; I have with hir y-spoke and longe y-be, So as accorded was bitwixe us tweye.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Why, what have you to do whither they bear it?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Fatherly love will hinder you.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

"Now what have you to say?" he demanded.
— from The Lilac Girl by Ralph Henry Barbour

“But where have you put it?”
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill

We are very happy together when he comes home, and fills the house with his young friends; and if it feels too large and empty for me in his absence, I can always walk down for a happy afternoon with Emily, or go and make a longer visit to Jaquetta.
— from Lady Hester; Or, Ursula's Narrative by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Her ties may be severed, her fond hopes withered, her young affections blighted, yet peace may be in her breast, and heaven in her eye.
— from The Ladies' Vase; Or, Polite Manual for Young Ladies by American lady

Where have you been?” “Dancing, of course.
— from The Financier: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The manners of the people in general were polite, I should say refined; they were kind, attentive, and obliging; they courted rather than shunned our society, and seemed to have less of the weakness or ostentation of natural pride than any of the tribes we had yet met.
— from The Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2 by George Finlayson

It is nearly done, and I will join you in the fir wood at whatever hour you please.’
— from The Lilac Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

And then, too, Morphy kept on checking Mr. Avery's king by moving his rook from the seventh square to the eighth, backwards and forwards, until that estimable gentleman declared it was a drawn game, when a bystander horrified him with the [Pg 85] information—"That is only after fifty moves; Morphy will keep you there until he has kiboshed the others, and then he will honor you with his sole attention.
— from The Exploits and Triumphs, in Europe, of Paul Morphy, the Chess Champion by Frederick Milnes Edge

“But where have you been, Walter, this long, long day; I was so lonely, I had no one to read to me, so I soon tired of my needle-work, and in very weariness I wandered off to see the sun set.”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 4, October 1852 by Various

Mr. B. Emily, what have you to tell us of Ancus Martius, successor to Tullus?
— from Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Frances Bowyer Vaux