I will agree therefore to your proposal about my marriage, provided that you do not marry me to a heathen man."
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

The Caesars, in their exalted rank, revered the majesty of the emperors, and the three younger princes invariably acknowledged, by their gratitude and obedience, the common parent of their fortunes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

‘Because,’ he continued, looking at the two young people, who were fixed under his eye—Linton appeared as if he could not venture to stir or raise his head, and Catherine could not move, on his account—‘because that lad yonder seems determined to beat me; and I’d thank his uncle to be quick, and go before him!
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Cæsars, in their exalted rank, revered the majesty of the emperors, and the three younger princes invariably acknowledged, by their gratitude and obedience, the common parent of their fortunes.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I think it advisable, therefore, that you prepare as much of a cavalry force as you can spare, and hold it in readiness to go south.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The children must accustom themselves to your position as it is; they will take more interest in you later.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

It was therefore agreed that the young people of both families should visit each other frequently for the future, and the friendship of course lasted as long as the jovial old mediatrix was there to keep the peace.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

As for the young chickens and turkeys, Hetty would have hated the very word “hatching,” if her aunt had not bribed her to attend to the young poultry by promising her the proceeds of one out of every brood.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Just so with my own pupil, when he is a man I speak to him as a man, and only tell him what is new to him; it is just because they are tedious to your pupils that he will find them to his taste.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It was at the door of No. 27 Rue Saint-Dominique, then the residence of the elder author, that the young poet knocked in those early days of his fame; and here, a little later, he was invited by the diplomat to join his Embassy to Berlin.
— from The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume 2 (of 2) by Benjamin Ellis Martin

"That is to say, so far as applying torture to yourself personally is concerned.
— from Jack Haydon's Quest by John Finnemore

Annie, my dear,' for he was always very affable with Annie, 'will you help me off with my overalls, and then turn your pretty hand to the gridiron?
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

There will be money compensation for you and money compensation for Laurent ... and, please God, the past splendours of Mortain will one day be revived ... but it will all take time ... years perhaps ... and, in the meanwhile, I think you should talk seriously to Fernande.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Three of these princesses, the three elder ones, had lived, during the life of George I., at St. James's with their grandfather; who, irritated by the differences between him and his son, then Prince of Wales, adopted that measure rather as showing his authority than from any affection to the young princesses.
— from The Wits and Beaux of Society. Volume 1 by Philip Wharton

Also Buck Daniels said of women: "It ain't what you say to 'em so much as the tune you put it to."
— from The Night Horseman by Max Brand

The man who had the bad clock thought it better to pay five dollars more to have a good one; so the exchange was made, and then the Yankee, proceeding with the clock, returned to the next house.
— from Diary in America, Series Two by Frederick Marryat

It wasn't by that method that you found your way from Austin, Texas, to your present eminence and wisdom.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

He is a traitor to your person and your honor, and this we stand ready to prove."
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 14 (of 15), King Arthur (2) by Malory, Thomas, Sir