If she finds they embarrass her, she will request you to hold them for her, but etiquette requires you not to notice them, unless she speaks of them first.
— 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

Era razonable y soy un bruto: era respetuoso y soy insolente: era culto y me encuentro salvaje.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

“But everyone respects you,” said Bobbie; “they all said so.”
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

return Footnote 21: These three stanzas were added in 1842, the following being excised: ­ Remember you the clear moonlight, That whitened all the eastern ridge, When o'er the water, dancing white, I stepped upon the old mill-bridge.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

The tranced ship indolently rolls; the drowsy trade winds blow; everything resolves you into languor.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Hitherto the axiom always was, "Prussia the Adjunct and Satellite of France:" now to be entirely reversed, you say? JULY, 1755, that is two months before this Babiole Committee met, a Duc de Nivernois, respectable intelligent dilettante French Nobleman, had been named as Ambassador to Friedrich, "Go, you respectable wise Nivernois, Nobleman of Letters so called; try and retain Friedrich for us, as usual!
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 17 by Thomas Carlyle

This is my doctrine: Give every other human being every right you claim for yourself.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

"Are you quite sure, Rosie, that when you rouse it by exasperating remarks you do not share the sin?" asked her mother with a grieved, troubled look.
— from The Two Elsies A Sequel to Elsie at Nantucket by Martha Finley

Notwithstanding every subject may not be relished by every reader, yet the buyer may be assured that each number will repay his generous subscription.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

end poetry block end rend You should have seen, dear reader, with what exuberance of glee Katie Wilmot received her Valentine, which is the one we are now about to unfold.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 5, May 1850 by Various

end poetry block end rend “You have certain ideals though,” said Patience.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

end poetry block end rend Yet the modern proselytes to Mesmerism would scarcely believe this a fiction, but an illustration of that lucid vision which may, it is believed, be so highly excited, as to associate the being with universal nature: a creed grounded on the expansion or illimitable nature of thought or mind, by which it seems to leave the body, carrying with it its consciousness.
— from The Philosophy of Mystery by Walter Cooper Dendy