Are things just as you left them yesterday?
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

"I was picking a special box for you, and now you can have a feast beside, just as you like it, fresh from the vines.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

‘Surely,’ I cried to him, ‘you don’t want to offer yourself just as you are as a substitute for Christ?’
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But I'll just ax yo another question, sir, and I dunnot want yo to answer it, only to put in yo'r pipe, and smoke it, afore yo' go for to set down us, who only believe in what we see, as fools and noddies.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The pirates kicked him in their rage, just as you
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Do just as you please, but if you do send him one, let it be the last in E flat; they have voices enough for anything, and a great many people will be assembled at that time; they even write for them to come from a distance, for it is their greatest festival.
— from The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It is but one out of many that can discuss either political or religious differences, with candor and judgment, and yet so far control his language and temper as to avoid either giving or taking offence.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

There is a commotion of birds in the jasmine, and your Barker reclines with an infinite tranquillity, a masterless
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I selected as good a crew of fifteen picked, sea-going fellows as were procurable, and just a year ago we started.”
— from Jack at Sea: All Work and No Play Made Him a Dull Boy by George Manville Fenn

It is in your home, bearing and rearing your sons and your daughters, and adding to my sum of joy and your own.
— from The Precipice: A Novel by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

Ah, a maid what can treat a prime home-cured jowl as yon did baint the sort for to mistress it over we, I’m thinking.
— from Six Plays by Darwin, Florence Henrietta Fisher, Lady

Remember that for each of those vile infidels slain, a double joy awaits you in paradise.
— from The Days of Mohammed by Anna May Wilson

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— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"We shall have dinner in twenty minutes, Robert," said Mrs. Campbell, and Jepson added: "Your rooms upstairs are prepared for you, sir."
— from A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia E. Barr