I know every circumstance respecting your passion: Every conversation has been repeated to me.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

For certain reasons you will next go and do homage at this well.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

“And then, my lord,” continued Rochefort, “you understand that to emerge from the Bastile in order to enter Vincennes is only to change one’s prison.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

"O summer gauk!" cried some children rejoicingly; "yonder stands one—how beautiful, how beautiful!
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

“May I have the pleasure of calling on you?” said I. “I cannot receive you, sir, except in the presence of my landlady.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Ah! here is my brother, Georges Ardelle, director of the Crédit Rouennais.... you must know....”
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

Yes, you are dripping like a mermaid; pull my cloak round you: but I think you are feverish, Jane: both your cheek and hand are burning hot.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, / Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbræ —And now the cottage roofs yonder smoke, and the shadows fall longer from the mountain-tops.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I cannot refute you, Socrates, said Agathon:—Let us assume that what you say is true.
— from Symposium by Plato

Thus half-discover'd through the dark disguise, With cool composure feign'd, the chief replies: "You join your suffrage to the public vote; The same you think have all beholders thought."
— from The Odyssey by Homer

"I have not ceased to do so since his capture," returned Yusuf.
— from The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson

I really cannot receive your reproach."
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

Rubidium gives a splendid spectrum, containing red, yellow, and green lines, and also two characteristic violet lines; while cæsium has orange, yellow, and green lines, and two very beautiful blue lines, by which it is easily recognized.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Hence the student preparing for the foreign mission may take this as an axiom:— If people cannot respect you as a gentleman, on the non-Catholic world your influence is nil; and even on your own Catholic people it will sit very lightly .
— from The Young Priest's Keepsake by Michael J. Phelan

I could recite you the whole of Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The nigger said that I had insulted his wife, and had made improper proposals to her; that made me wrathy; I [Pg 186] told him that he was guilty of uttering a falsehood before the court; emphatically pronounced his assertion relative to my making an insulting proposal to that feminine lump of animated charcoal, with whom he very properly cohabited, to be an unequivocal lie; I am no controversalist, and still less would I descend from my exalted height to engage in a controversy with that herculean African, especially after enduring the perspiration, which, despite my frantic efforts to the contrary, I was compelled to suffer during a hot night, in a cell where any respectable thermometer, if it could be induced to go into the cell once, if it was anything at all, would be a hundred at least; yes, sir,' he continued, 'and should you ever have a morbid desire to enter into controversy, recline your heated form of a hot night in the cell which I occupied, and by morning you will insist upon retiring into some secluded spot, from which secluded spot you can look dispassionately and unmoved upon the moral strifes of the world.
— from The History and Records of the Elephant Club by Edward F. (Edward Fitch) Underhill

“Then suddenly I asked him: “'And you, are you married?' “He exclaimed: “'Ten years, my boy, and I have four children, remarkable youngsters; but you'll see them and their mother.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

It is the only way that I can repay you."
— from Three Sides of Paradise Green by Augusta Huiell Seaman

Put my coat round you”—stripping it off.
— from The House of Dreams-Come-True by Margaret Pedler