If you would keep yourselves strictly joined together by the bond of friendship, it would not be in the power of any one to hurt you; but when once the ties of brotherly love are dissolved, you are liable to be injured by the attack of every enemy."
— from Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side by Frances Bowyer Vaux

“Then, my lord, allow me to add to your satisfaction by assuring you that my heart is wholly and unalterably in possession of another; that that other knows it; and that I have avowed my love for him with the same truth and candor with which I now say that I both loathe and despise you.”
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

It was not so graceful, especially in the head-dress, as the costume of the present day; nor nearly so becoming—as Magali showed by looking a dozen years older after putting it on.
— from The Christmas Kalends of Provence And Some Other Provençal Festivals by Thomas A. (Thomas Allibone) Janvier

When I stood in need of help in my fever and lay between life and death, you feared to enter.”
— from Old Court Life in Spain, vol. 2/2 by Frances Minto Dickinson Elliot

what has not your ungrateful folly cost my poor mother!—Had you been less a darling, you would not, perhaps, have been so graceless: But I never in my life saw a cockered favourite come to good.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson

It's been like a dream, your absence.
— from The Restless Sex by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Be a good, brave lady, and do your duty.”
— from What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

[165] —No phantom, it is said, but a fair reality: A being, breathing thoughtful breath, A traveller betwixt life and death, yet fated not to die, while verse can live!
— from The Romance of Biography (Vol 2 of 2) or Memoirs of Women Loved and Celebrated by Poets, from the Days of the Troubadours to the Present Age. 3rd ed. 2 Vols. by Mrs. (Anna) Jameson

118:017 I will not die, but live, and declare Yah's works.
— from The World English Bible (WEB): Psalms by Anonymous