Now, the proof of "woman's love," so industriously held forth for the sympathy, if not for the esteem of the audience, consists in this, that, though Bertram had become a robber and a murderer by trade, a ruffian in manners, yea, with form and features at which his own mother could not but "recoil," yet she (Lady Imogine) "the wife of a most noble, honoured Lord," estimable as a man, exemplary and affectionate as a husband, and the fond father of her only child—that she, notwithstanding all this, striking her heart, dares to say to it—
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Hold off your hands. Horatio. Be ruled; you shall not go. Hamlet.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

It's lucky as you've got that high hearth i'stead of a grate, for that keeps the fire more out of her reach: but if you've got anything as can be spilt or broke, or as is fit to cut her fingers off, she'll be at it—and it is but right you should know.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

When, then, we have subtracted what is altogether voluntary, that mournful uneasiness will be removed; yet some little anxiety, some slight pricking, will still remain.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But really you should have a lady’s maid!
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

By reason, you say, which examines the moral relations of actions.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

And I, the Furies’ queen, from both relate: You seek th’ Italian shores, foredoom’d by fate: Th’ Italian shores are granted you to find, And a safe passage to the port assign’d.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

He returned home, full of, despair, where he sorrowfully told his wife that, having fallen into this misfortune, he was resolved to kill himself: to which she roundly replied, “‘tis but reason you should, seeing that having so often experienced the incontinence of my tongue, you could not take warning: but let me kill myself first,” and without any more saying ran herself through the body with a sword.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

quō quidem tempore sī meum cōnsilium valuisset, tū hodiē egērēs, nōs līberī essēmus , Ph. 2, 37, if by the way at that time my counsel had been regarded, you, sir, would be a beggar to-day and we should be free .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

26:14 I will make you a bare rock; you shall be a place for the spreading of nets; you shall be built no more: for I Yahweh have spoken it, says the Lord Yahweh.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

“Well,” said Ned, who had lighted his pipe and stretched himself out on his back, “I shan’t be sorry when we get to the big river you speak of.
— from Manco, the Peruvian Chief Or, An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas by William Henry Giles Kingston

Beams are crackling—posts are shrinking Walls are sinking—windows clinking— Children crying— Mothers flying— And the beast (the black ruin yet smouldering under)
— from The Poems of Schiller — Third period by Friedrich Schiller

"Yes," he said, "why not let the Belgian royal yacht seize it?"
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume I by Burton Jesse Hendrick

At length Hildegarde could not endure his gaze any longer, and she said hastily but respectfully, "Yes, sir!
— from Hildegarde's Holiday: A Story for Girls by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Your ladyship will do me the favour to believe, that though I cannot but regard your suspicions as equally cruel and unjust, I shall never entertain the smallest resentment upon their account.
— from Italian Letters, Vols. I and II; Or, The History of the Count de St. Julian by William Godwin

"They're both round, you see.
— from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

but right you should.
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley

'Unfortunate, of course, but really, you see, you've been most imprudent, and every precaution must be taken to prevent the details of this affair leaking out.'
— from The Transgression of Andrew Vane: A Novel by Guy Wetmore Carryl