They seemed to be alone, but his sister called aloud, “He wants to see you,” and from the air came a voice, “You can not see me until you put on a new dress, and then you can see me.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

H2 anchor To Miss Cruickshank A very Young Lady Written on the Blank Leaf of a Book, presented to her by the Author.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

We'll both be crude and vulgar, yes we will.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

Our gentry in England live most part in the country (except it be some few castles) building still in bottoms (saith [3154] Jovius) or near woods, corona arborum virentium ; you shall know a village by a tuft of trees at or about it, to avoid those strong winds wherewith the island is infested, and cold winter blasts.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

My dearest madam, Let not your hate encounter with my love, For loving where you do; but if yourself, Whose aged honour cites a virtuous youth, Did ever in so true a flame of liking Wish chastely and love dearly that your Dian Was both herself and Love; O, then, give pity To her whose state is such that cannot choose But lend and give where she is sure to lose; That seeks not to find that her search implies, But, riddle-like, lives sweetly where she dies!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In the eastern sky hung the planet Mars, just up, and of a very clear and vivid yellow.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

At the same time they swayed their bodies, now to the right and now to the left, while uttering at each movement a piercing cry, a veritable yell, " Yrrsh!
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The jewels you have had from me to deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a votarist: you have told me she hath received them, and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden respect and acquaintance; but I find none.
— from Othello, the Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare

Your dreams during that time will be prophetic of your future destiny, and, what is still more curious and valuable, says Mother Bridget, the man whom you are to wed will enjoy no peace till he comes and visits you.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

You are too ill to be permitted to take your choice in the matter, and to the château at Versailles you must be removed.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

I shall be well first, and I shall come and visit you.’
— from Novel Notes by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

As soon as we're authorized to represent Gridley High School as an official canoe crew, then you may claim any victory you can obtain over us.
— from The High School Boys' Canoe Club by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

I will come and visit you to-day.
— from I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross by Peter Rosegger

They were certainly a very young couple, being both of them under sixteen.
— from Mary Queen of Scots Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

The first plays with these blocks, especially if the children are very young, will be to make what Froebel calls forms of life; that is, chairs, tables, columns, walls, tanks, stables, houses, &c. Everybody conversant with children knows how easily they will "make believe," as they call it, all these different forms, out of any materials whatever; and are most amused, when the materials to be transformed by their personifying and symbolizing fancy are few, for so much do children enjoy the exercise of imagination, that they find it more amusing to have simple forms, which they can "make believe,"—first to be one thing, and then another,—than to have elaborately carved columns, and such like materials, for building.
— from Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class; and Moral Culture of Infancy. by Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

Which names you the chief glory of this city And votes you proud permission to adorn San Marco's highest altar with perfection.
— from The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

If you would even invite some young lady of your own age to come and visit you it would be so much livelier for you.
— from Countess Vera; or, The Oath of Vengeance by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.