Bazin was stationed in the corridor, and barred his passage with the more intrepidity that, after many years of trial, Bazin found himself near a result of which he had ever been ambitious.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

If you are tête-à-tête with a friend, and such a discussion arise, inquire your companion's church and mention your own, that you may yourself avoid unpleasant remarks, and caution him.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

I took particular notice of its dress, and more yet of the lychnosimity formerly consecrated by Canopa, the daughter of Tisias.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

You are mistaken; you ought to have said: a mite of butter on the rabbit.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Nor need I have spoken of the matter, were it not that I desired you to understand that she might possibly have felt embarrassed at meeting you on the very day after your arrival."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

My comrade, who had helped to harden me before, and who was the master’s son, was now less forward than I. The first time he spoke to me after we were at Yarmouth, which was not till two or three days, for we were separated in the town to several quarters; I say, the first time he saw me, it appeared his tone was altered; and, looking very melancholy, and shaking his head, he asked me how I did, and telling his father who I was, and how I had come this voyage only for a trial, in order to go further abroad, his father, turning to me with a very grave and concerned tone “Young man,” says he, “you ought never to go to sea any more; you ought to take this for a plain and visible token that you are not to be a seafaring man.”
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

But perhaps you are making yourself out to be worse than you are, purposely?”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The words of Davis were uttered in a spirit of jest, but the novel idea found lodgment in the mind of one of the workmen who stood by, a mere youth of twenty, who was thought not capable of a serious idea.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I feel so certain, Rachael, that the confidence you hold in yours against all discouragement, is not like to be wrong, that I have no more doubt of him than if I had known him through as many years of trial as you have.’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

Quoth I, “Wi' a' my heart, I'll do't; I'll get my Sunday's sark on, An' meet you on the holy spot; Faith, we'se hae fine remarkin!”
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

He, on the contrary, means to go conquering and enslaving forward; to be in and out of love right and left, and to end, after many years of triumph, in the possession of the best and wisest and fairest of her sex.
— from An Open-Eyed Conspiracy; An Idyl of Saratoga by William Dean Howells

"Here's long life an' happiness, an' may yer only troubles be—well, well, niver mind th' troubles.
— from Desert Conquest; or, Precious Waters by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm

You can show not one bit of goodness or pleasantness to the person that does the most for you and has all the care of you, but the first stranger that comes along you can be all honey to them, and make yourself out too good for common folks, and go and tell great tales how you are used at home, I suppose.
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Something, perhaps, in their perfume stirred that haunting memory the deeper, for he suddenly raised his head and burst out:— "Ah, Major, you ought to have seen that woman forty years ago!
— from Colonel Carter of Cartersville by Francis Hopkinson Smith

There has been a hoping that the Lord some day or other would own the instruction which they give to children, and would answer at some time or other, though after many years only, the prayers which they offer up on their behalf.
— from A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 2 by George Müller

In that moment there came a strange silence over the cabin, and in that silence the incessant and maddening yapping of the little white foxes rose shrilly over the distant booming and rumbling of the ice.
— from The River's End by James Oliver Curwood

Carloman, at his eighteen years, has the appearance of a man of forty, and many years older than his brother.
— from The Churches of Paris, from Clovis to Charles X by Sophia Beale

This letter was endorsed by one from J.R.'s mother (the Elizabeth Rowntree whom the reader may remember as the hostess of J. and M. Yeardley on their first visit to Scarborough,) from which we extract a few lines.
— from Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley, Minister of the Gospel by John Yeardley

You are many years older than my daughter, Lieut.
— from The Wizard of West Penwith: A Tale of the Land's-End by William Bentinck Forfar