You know the very road into his kindness And cannot lose your way.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I see no reason whatever to suppose that there is any specifically new ingredient; sensations and images, with their relations and causal laws, yield all that seems to be wanted for the analysis of the will, together with the fact that kinaesthetic images tend to cause the movements with which they are connected.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

Know that once and for all; as if anyone could marry an absurd creature like you!
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Felton approached her, and said, “Lord de Winter, who is a Catholic, like yourself, madame, thinking that the deprivation of the rites and ceremonies of your church might be painful to you, has consented that you should read every day the ordinary of your Mass; and here is a book which contains the ritual.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In this loathsome dungeon, from which there was no access but a small loop hole, through which they passed his food, he lay for several days; and he would lift up his voice, and cry, "Love ye the Lord Jesus Christ according as he hath loved us, and given himself to die for us.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

If she accepts it, and asks your address to return it, leave it with her; if she hesitates, and does not wish to deprive you of the use of it, you may offer to accompany her to her destination, and then, do not open a conversation; let your manner be respectful, and when you leave her, let her thank you, assure her of the pleasure it has given you to be of service, bow, and leave her.
— 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

The average daily census of all the prisons, hospi tals, workhouses, and asylums in the charge of the Department of Charities and Correction last year was about 14,000, and about one employee was required for every ten of this army to keep its machinery running smoothly.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

"You could not do any harm, a child like you!
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The enemies of La Salle had already gained the ear of the King; and he had written in August, from Fontainebleau, to his new governor of Canada: "I am convinced, like you, that the discovery of the Sieur de la Salle is very useless, and that such enterprises ought to be prevented in future, as they tend only to debauch the inhabitants by the hope of gain, and to diminish the revenue from beaver-skins."
— from France and England in North America, Part III: La Salle, Discovery of The Great West by Francis Parkman

A curious list, you will say.
— from Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett

‘However did Jill manage to have a cousin like you?’
— from The Youngest Girl in the School by Evelyn Sharp

She attended a class last year, organised by an artist friend of mine in Chelsea.
— from Aaron Rodd, Diviner by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

But in spite of possibilities it was not likely that Thomasin would accept this Ishmaelitish creature while she had a cousin like Yeobright at her elbow, and Wildeve at the same time not absolutely indifferent.
— from The Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy

I honour a chief like Yellow Vulture myself, and I don't care if he hears me say so.
— from The Talking Horse, and Other Tales by F. Anstey

"If, instead of hearing what did not concern you, Señor Domingo, for I believe that is your name," Don Stefano said, with a cunning look, "you had remained quietly asleep in your camp, the little annoyance of which you complain would not have occurred."
— from The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City by Gustave Aimard

And I believe when you preach repentance and faith, and shew what fruits they will produce in the true penitent and true believer, the world will not hear you and cordially like your doctrine.
— from A Series of Letters, in Defence of Divine Revelation In Reply to Rev. Abner Kneeland's Serious Inquiry into the Authenticity of the Same. To Which is Added, a Religious Correspondence, Between the Rev. Hosea Ballou, and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Buckminster and Rev. Joseph Walton, Pastors of Congregational Churches in Portsmouth, N. H. by Hosea Ballou

Possessive pronouns had the unmeaning syllable quien before them, as, Nous gagné quien à nous , for Nous avons les nôtres ; and demonstrative pronouns were changed in this way: Mo voir z'animaux là yo , for J'ai vu ces animaux , and Ci la yo qui té vivre, for Ceux qui ont vécu.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various