There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, lest in our seeking we may need them.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker
True, water is softer than your own delicate hands, and yet it polishes stones into shapes; it feels no pain as your fingers would feel, it has no soul, and cannot suffer such agony and torment as you will have to endure.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
Therefore, what I say to you, Sir Leicester Dedlock, Baronet, is, don't you go and let yourself be put out of the way because of my knowing anything of your family affairs."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Listen to what I say to you.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens
With an obstinacy dreadful to see, she went back again to the place where she had checked herself, and completed her question in these words: “I spoke to you, a minute since, about what people were saying in certain quarters.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
“Have you given your consideration to what I spoke to you about?” asked Cornelius, pronouncing the words with difficulty, like a man in the cold fit of a fever.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
He let some days pass, then, taking with him a trusty companion of his, he repaired to Madam Lisetta's house and withdrawing with her into a room apart, where none might see him, he fell on his knees before her and said, 'Madam, I pray you for God's sake pardon me that which I said to you last Sunday, whenas you bespoke me of your beauty, for that the following night I was so cruelly chastised there that I have not since been able to rise from my bed till to-day.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio
Master yourself, Raymond, and the world is subject to you."
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
How little attention you pay to what I say to you!
— from The Lucky Man by Monsieur (Michel) Baron
"Forget it all," he said, "save the words I spoke to you over that forest grave.
— from Love Among the Ruins by Warwick Deeping
"It is, as you say, a terrible power," she answered gravely, "and the more you know of it the more terrible will it seem to you."
— from The Parasite: A Story by Arthur Conan Doyle
But resuming his courage, he continued, "No, monseigneur, nothing, absolutely nothing more than what I said to you yesterday, and which I am again ready to repeat to you now."
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas
"I will explain it to you, my son," he said, "and listen carefully to what I say to you."
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
"My dear Lady Anna," said the Serjeant, "may I ask you to sit down for a moment or two while I speak to you?
— from Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
Every murmur of the waves is suggestive to your ears.
— from Tongues of Conscience by Robert Hichens
Learn that what I say to you partakes of faith.
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 09 by Voltaire
"You like the words I say to you, then?" "Yes, indeed," said Mattie, wondering what would come next.
— from Guild Court: A London Story by George MacDonald
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