“When I found out that you were in love with me, I felt delighted, and gave you every opportunity of becoming every day more deeply enamoured of me, thinking myself certain of never loving you myself.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“‘Ah! you cannot comprehend how it is that I love your wild mountains, and children of nature like yourself.’
— from Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester

To have allied my family with a child of Nature like yourself would have given me the greatest joy.
— from Duffels by Edward Eggleston

Could one not leave you for a minute but you must go off by yourself?
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

193 Commissioners of Northern Lights, yacht of, xxv. 98 & n. 1 “Comtesse d’Escarbaguas” (Molière), xxiv.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 25 by Robert Louis Stevenson

"I am certain of not losing your esteem," exclaimed Kindelon, with all his most characteristic warmth.
— from The Adventures of a Widow: A Novel by Edgar Fawcett

This song was sung and the first Christmas came one night long years ago, far over the sea, near a little town called Bethlehem.
— from The Boyhood of Jesus by Anonymous

Skin the stalks, cut them into small pieces, wash and put them in a stewpan with no more water than what adheres to them; when cooked, mash them fine and put in a small piece of butter; when cool, sweeten to taste; if liked, add a little lemon-peel, cinnamon or nutmeg; line your plate with thin crust, put in the filling, cover with crust and bake in a quick oven; sift sugar over it when served.
— from The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) Cooking, Toilet and Household Recipes, Menus, Dinner-Giving, Table Etiquette, Care of the Sick, Health Suggestions, Facts Worth Knowing, Etc., Etc. The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home by Hugo Ziemann