Adieu, my dearest Sir! Heaven, I trust, will never let me live to be repulsed, and derided by you, to whom I may now sign myself, wholly your EVELINA.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I stand'; "Well, if there's a single situation in life these words describe it is that point in a young man's life when he makes his first clear decision between right and desire, between yielding himself the sport of youthful inclinations, and following the clean path of duty.
— from Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell