The hour of none come, she took her waiting-woman and without anywise changing counsel, repaired to the bagnio that Ricciardo had named to her, and there finding the good woman, asked her if Filippello had been there that day, whereupon quoth the other, who had been duly lessoned by Ricciardo, 'Are you the lady that should come to speak with him?'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But legislators who would establish this principle are apt to overlook what they ought to consider; that while they regulate the quantity of provisions which each individual shall possess, they ought also to regulate the number of his children; for if these exceed the allotted quantity of provision, the law must necessarily be repealed; and yet, in spite of the repeal, it will have the bad effect of reducing many from wealth to poverty, so difficult is it for innovators not to fall into such mistakes.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

“And you another order, for I see you have a blue ribbon at your button-hole.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

A trencher and a napkin you shall have in the buttery, and keep Cob and his wife company here; whom I will intreat first to be reconciled; and you to endeavour with your wit to keep them so.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

But rather are ye predictions than warnings, ye shadows!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

If she is accustomed to eat just before retiring, and your family do not take supper, see that something is sent to her room every night.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

'That sickness should suspend your correspondence, I did not wonder; but hoped that it would be renewed at your recovery.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Sir, said the knight, in your sight I will be ruled as ye will have me.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

[7] York County Records, Virginia Deeds, Orders, and Wills, no. 13 (1706–1710), p. 248; and the inventory of Amasa Thompson in Lawrence B. Romaine , "A Yankee Carpenter and His Tools," The Chronicle of the Early American Industries Association (July 1953), vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 33–34.
— from Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 by Peter C. Welsh

was not angry at you; but I do it in order to make you wiser hereafter, and to teach you that this will be for your security; I mean, that you never be injurious to those that preside over you, even when you are become rich, as you will be to a great degree when you have passed over Jordan, and are in possession of the land of Canaan.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Others have figures of birds, animals, or trees painted all over the body, according to fancy; their favorite colors being 754 black, red, and yellow, which are laid on with pencils made of wood, chewed at the end till they become soft.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

10 Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make sure your calling and election: for by doing these things, ye shall never at any time stumble: 11 but an entrance will thus be richly afforded you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
— from A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek Humbly Attempted with a View to Assist the Unlearned with Clearer and More Explicit Views of the Mind of the Spirit in the Scriptures of Truth by Thomas Haweis

“I have become religious, as you see,” she said.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The native sulphides (both red and yellow) are much less soluble, and hence less poisonous, than those prepared artificially.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The following case is but the type of many that could be related:— A young man of family, the Hon.
— from The Anatomy of Suicide by Forbes Winslow

But really, after your last letter, I do not think school can be doing you much good, and provided you will subject yourself to a test which I am about to set you, I will yield to your request.
— from Three Girls from School by L. T. Meade

Here Strindberg draws the shame and agony of the broken marriage-tie with bitter realism, and yet with a delicate touch of that all-human compassion before which the flowers of satire wither.
— from August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt: Studies and Impressions by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby

Besides this, it is clear that you cannot live in peace and contentment as you say; you might at any moment be recognized and your life forfeited.
— from The Cat of Bubastes: A Tale of Ancient Egypt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

But when I learned of your perfidy; when I was forced to realize that I was not only your jilted victim, but your hoodwinked dupe; that your object in coaxing from me my fortune was wholly selfish; that you never meant to restore either my property or my good name; while your kisses were warm upon my lips your heart was planning proposals to another woman to become your wife that I, your discarded tool, could not claim even to be regarded as your mistress; when I felt sure of all this, I was frantic with grief and rage.
— from A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett by William Henry Venable

You were running”—he regarded her through narrowed lids—“a pretty big risk, and you’re woman of the world enough to know it.
— from The Vision of Desire by Margaret Pedler