You may never pass over a "catch"; you must always remove the card and start afresh.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

With the same care and industry which [Pg 16] you have bestowed upon your garden, cultivate your minds , and raise in them the lovely and unfading flowers of piety and virtue.
— from Woodbine-Arbor; or, The Little Gardeners: A Story of a Happy Childhood by Anonymous

“Can you make a ran for it?”
— from An English Squire by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

In the mean time, gentle Public, respected Cockney, and worthy Mail-Robber, we cry you mercy all round!
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

Suffer me, my Lord, to entreat that you will endeavour to calm your mind and regain your health.
— from Emmeline, the Orphan of the Castle by Charlotte Smith

"Why," said Charles, "you made a remark of your own, which enabled me, viewing the matter in its very worst and most hideous aspect, to gather hope."
— from Varney the Vampire; Or, the Feast of Blood by Thomas Preskett Prest

By Julian Charles Young, M. A., Rector of Ilmington.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

But this I'll certainly say: if you tell me presently that you're free to the nation once more and have changed your mind about Richard, then I'd very soon let him know there's a gulf fixed between 'The Tiger' and 'The Seven Stars'; and if you said the word, he'd see that gulf getting broader and broader under his living eyes."
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

One whole month I will give you to change your mind, and recollect your duty.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 06 by Maria Edgeworth

Perhaps, if you are one of these, you will be inclined to change your mind after reading about his contest with Old Mr. Crow to see which is really the wiser of the two.
— from The Tale of Tommy Fox by Arthur Scott Bailey