3. A patient continuance in well-doing (Luke xii. 35–46). Are you thus “waiting” for the second coming of your Lord?— Edward Cooper: Practical and Familiar Sermons, vol.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

“Nurse,” she said when she next broke silence, “did you in the whole course of your life ever tell a lie?” “My word!” cried nurse—“Miss Marjorie, you’ll prick your little fingers if you hold the needle like that.
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade

Oh, how clever of you, Lady Eliason!
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

At night, after the last pipe is smoked and you are about turning in to get what sleep you can with no roof to cover you but the far-off heavens, then turn up your pants to the knee and jump, bare-footed and bare-legged into the nearby snow and stand in it until you can bear it no longer, then stand near the blazing camp-fire and with a coarse towel, or bag, rub the legs and feet well until the blood is tingling, and the color of your lower extremities resembles a boiled lobster, and my word for it, you will rest better, sleep sounder and arise refreshed — what you never enjoyed before."
— from Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter

You must certainly, in the course of your little experience, have felt the different effects of elegant and inelegant speaking.
— from Letters to His Son, 1749 On the Fine Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of

Instead of pouting like a spoiled child over your lost Edith, you had better go up and get her.
— from What Can She Do? by Edward Payson Roe

"I am Mr. Duncan Farll, a solicitor, a cousin of your late employer," the metallic voice continued, coming through a set of large, fine, white teeth.
— from Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days by Arnold Bennett