“You are lying, you miserable, profligate, perverted, little aristocrat!
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

This preserves the body from ill airs, and epidemical diseases, as the pestilence, small pox, &c. and strengthens the heart exceedingly, eating now and then a little: you may safely keep any troches in your pocket, for the drier you keep them, the better they are.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Yet My love, she's but a lassie yet, My love, she's but a lassie yet; We'll let her stand a year or twa, She'll no be half sae saucy yet; I rue the day I sought her, O!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Follow that lord, and look you mock him not.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

To an impressionable and lonely young man the consciousness of having at last found anchorage for his thoughts, which promised to supply both social and spiritual possibilities, was like the dew of Hermon, and he remained throughout the service in a sustaining atmosphere of ecstasy.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But how wilt thou cause me to meet Robin Hood?" "Why, thus," said Sir Hubert, "let Your Majesty and us here present put on the robes of seven of the Order of Black Friars, and let Your Majesty hang a purse of one hundred pounds beneath your gown; then let us undertake to ride from here to Mansfield Town tomorrow, and, without I am much mistaken, we will both meet with Robin Hood and dine with him before the day be passed.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

ne did give ye damn'd Sr. Walter a look yt made hym wince—for she hath not forgot he was her own lover it yt olde day.
— from 1601: Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors by Mark Twain

In the first row, after the three usual foundation threads are laid, you make the buttonhole stitches to the number of eight or ten, up to the point from which the next branch issues, from the edge of the braid, that is, upwards.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

In order to formulate particular suggestions, go to a room where you will be free from interruption, sit down in a comfortable chair, close your eyes, and let your muscles relax.
— from The Practice of Autosuggestion by C. Harry (Cyrus Harry) Brooks

"Yes," she said at last; "you may go to your room, put on your worsted bedroom slippers, and then you may bring back with you any books or toys you care for."
— from Marjorie's Vacation by Carolyn Wells

When, therefore, the sheep are lambing, you must ride or walk farther round, and notice any tracks you may see: anything rather than disturb the sheep.
— from A First Year in Canterbury Settlement by Samuel Butler

If you are indignant at men being ungrateful, you ought also to be indignant at their being luxurious, avaricious and lustful; you might as well be indignant with sick men for being ugly, or with old men for being pale.
— from L. Annaeus Seneca on Benefits by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Duke, I pardon you For having made me tremble for a moment, With secret apprehension, lest yourself Might fall a victim to a foul misdeed.
— from Don Carlos: A Play by Friedrich Schiller

He was a lean young man, not very tall, but with rather the air of an ex-college athlete.
— from Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

[414] eyes, and saw in a tree a little yellow man half a yard high, picking and eating oranges.
— from The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

You are like your mother and my mother; and you are bold and active and strong, she writes me.
— from The Tiger of Mysore: A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty