Callisthenes a rich young gentleman of Byzance in Thrace, hearing of [4808] Leucippe, Sostratus' fair daughter, was far in love with her, and, out of fame and common rumour, so much incensed, that he would needs have her to be his wife.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Parent gave an uneasy and resigned look at the clock and replied: “Yes, it certainly is half-past seven.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The foot-stove and hand-stove, I've also sent over; and urge that pack of lazy-bones to attend to their work, for if you say nothing, they will be so engrossed in their frolics, that they'll be loth to move, and let you, all for nothing, take a chill and ruin your constitution."
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

It is incalculable what by arranging, commanding, and regimenting you can make of men.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The brushwood was set fire to, and when the flames leaped high the woman said: “Now lie down at the fire, children, and rest yourselves: we are going into the forest to cut down wood; when we’ve finished we’ll come back and fetch you.”
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

In this inquiry I shall unfold the events that rescued our ancestors of Britain, and our neighbors of Gaul, from the civil and religious yoke of the Koran; that protected the majesty of Rome, and delayed the servitude of Constantinople; that invigorated the defence of the Christians, and scattered among their enemies the seeds of division and decay.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“Now,” said the doctor, “put on your clothes, and remember you must avoid such naughty tricks in future, or your bottom will pay for it.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

“Yes,” he had said, “Charley Hapgood is what they call a rising young man—somebody told me as much.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

'Let me come and read you some of my favourite chapters.'
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I will be asking you to do all her commands, and rest your affectionate friend, Catriona Macgregor-Drummond. P.S. —Will you not see my cousin, Allardyce?”
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 11 by Robert Louis Stevenson

your mouth must be closed as regards your sisters.
— from Lucian the dreamer by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

You wore a long blue apron that came all round you and a bodice of the same colour.
— from The Choice of Life by Georgette Leblanc

“ Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake.
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham

At once on getting your letter I set out with my wife, I went to the expense of taking a cab, and reached your house about half-past six.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In the rich insufficient light of these beautiful rooms, where, to look at the pictures, you sit in damask chairs and rest your elbows on tables of malachite, the elegant Andrea becomes deeply effective.
— from Italian Hours by Henry James

These are sad and terrible scenes for a young and gentle thing like you; but you have borne yourself nobly and well; and I trust a better Lord Coldenham will console and repay you for all you have suffered on his account."
— from The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

" To the truth of this speech I subscribed and wrote not. I have heard in later days a pretty description of the simple home in which all these handsome, cultivated, and remarkable young people grew up round their noble-minded mother.'
— from A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie