The dress is blue like your eyes, and candy is sweet just like your dear little self.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

We'll stand by you like bricks, and in a week you'll say it's the best lark you ever had in your life.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

But come, your Bergomask; let your epilogue alone.
— from A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare

Then they bade farewell, and Sir Galahad entered the forest, and Sir Lancelot returned to the ship, and the wind rose and drove him more than a month through the sea, whereby he slept but little, yet ever prayed that he might see the Sangreal.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

I’m surprised at boys like you, educated, reading such stuff.
— from Dubliners by James Joyce

Call your friend to a feast; but leave your enemy alone; and especially call him who lives near you: for if any mischief happen in the place, neighbours come ungirt, but kinsmen stay to gird themselves 1309 .
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

‘That’s the biggest lie you ever told in your life,’ says I; ‘I know my own mind.’
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Lo cap o gli diſſe q̃ bruſſaſero le ydoli et credeſſeno in chriſto et
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

The sight of the drawn blinds, like yellow eyelids in the grey face, awakened some secret irritation in Caldew's breast, and with it the realization of his powers as an officer of Scotland Yard.
— from The Hand in the Dark by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees

" "Now if he had been your friend, however much he was my national foe, I do confess it had been scarce honourable of me to have stabbed him to death in your presence: but why, I should like to ask, should the man who betrayed you be less your enemy than mine?
— from Hellenica by Xenophon

Finally, Dick had persuaded John to leave his situation, and join him and his lawless companions in their wild bush life; yet, even there, his thoughts often reverted to Ruth, and he made up his mind that if she would only break the silence and tell him she cared as much as ever for him, he would leave his present surroundings and begin a new life.
— from For John's Sake, and Other Stories. by Annie Frances Perram

But, come, your Bergomask: let your epilogue alone.
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

And your sister Edith, has she grown up to be like your eldest sister in the same way?'
— from The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols by William Black

But lift your eyes as you walk through this commonplace cross-street of New York, and you may see as picturesque a vista, over the quaint wooden cottage, as any city, anywhere, affords—forty stories looking down on two and a half, and between them, in intermediate flight, St. Gaudens' bronze Diana.
— from Penguin Persons & Peppermints by Walter Prichard Eaton

Matthew 5, 44-45 declare, that we can in that point commit | Geneva Bible: Love your enemies… no excess; so again we find it often | That you may be the children of your repeated in the old law, BE YOU HOLY
— from Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

That she was aware of something to Caroline's disadvantage appeared very evident, and that she was not the favourite she had been last year equally so.
— from The Mother's Recompense, Volume 1 A Sequel to Home Influence by Grace Aguilar