Cassio knows you not.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
Here is a gentleman whom by chance I met, Upon agreement from us to his liking, Will undertake to woo curst Katherine; Yea, and to marry her, if her dowry please.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
You may be sure that when the child knows you will neither preach nor scold, he will always tell you everything, and that no one will dare to tell him anything he must conceal from you, for they will know very well that he will tell you everything.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
You cannot keep your enthusiasms down, you cannot keep your emotions within bounds when that soaring bubble of marble breaks upon your view.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain
He tells me that the Council last night did sit close to determine of the King’s answer about the peace, and that though he do not certainly know, yet by all discourse yesterday he do believe it is peace, and that the King had said it should be peace, and had bidden Alderman Baclewell to declare [it] upon the ‘Change.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys
We ritually spit Valu village kumaydona, all, boge already itamwa’u he vanish ninasi mind theirs’, ilukwaydasi: they tell us: 8 8 “Bweyna, “Good, kumwoynasi you climb kami your bu’a, areca, nuya, coco-nut (palms) kami your usi banana kuta’isi.”
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski
said I: You yourself seem not sure you can keep your own present good resolutions; and do you think, if I was to stay, when I could get away, and be safe, it would not look, as if either I confided too much in my own strength, or would tempt my ruin?
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
so, here he comes; keep your breath close, that he do not hear you sigh.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson
I can keep you.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell
Jane, out there in the sage, on a long chase, Wrangle could kill your favorites.”
— from Riders of the Purple Sage by Zane Grey
'If I were a younger woman I could kiss you for it.'
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith
‘However,’ said he, ‘the captain knows you are coming, so that’s not of much consequence; but as you’ll have to find the ship yourself, you must remember her name and description.
— from The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Of course, knowing your Majesty's mind, I answered unhesitatingly that he might."
— from The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle
"If you can keep your own conscience clear of evil, and win this woman from the toils of Satan, you will do well," said Wesley, "but tamper not with the truth; and if you fail in bringing her to a right way of thinking, part company with her for ever.
— from The Infidel: A Story of the Great Revival by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
You could knock your bride down with a club if she objected.
— from Sylvia Arden Decides by Margaret Piper Chalmers
Neither heredity, environment or any of the obstacles superimposed by man can keep you from marching straight through to a cure if you are guided by a firm, driving determination and have health and normal intelligence.
— from Stammering, Its Cause and Cure by Benjamin Nathaniel Bogue
Come, know your weight!"—and a multitude of people, mostly large in the girth, were moved by this vociferation to sit down in the machines.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various
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