For how could you see the Line, that is to say the inside, of any Man?
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott

I’ll strip you nak’d, and whip you with my rhymes, Causing your shame to live to after-times.
— from The Works of John Marston. Volume 3 by John Marston

" Your rank forbids a doubt as to the fact that you and every officer and man of your department are identified with the policy and responsible for it, and I shall not permit you, notwithstanding by your studied language in both your communications you seek to limit the operations of your unholy scheme, and visit its terrible consequences alone upon that ignorant, deluded, but unfortunate people, the negroes, whose destruction you are planning in order to accomplish ours.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

“Let me catch you showing the letter to your father this day!” exclaimed Mrs. Foxville indignantly.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

"Well, my little man," said Mr. Sewell, with an affability which he could readily assume with children, "you seem to like to look at me."
— from The Pearl of Orr's Island: A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe

,” said the captain, “you seem to like the fun; jump into your gig again, take four fresh hands” (thinks I, a fresh midshipman would not be amiss), “get on board of that vessel and put her head the right way.”
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

In the fulness of time both Judaism and Paganism had come to nought; the outward framework, which concealed yet suggested the Living Truth, had never been intended to last, and it was dissolving under the beams of the Sun of Justice which shone behind it and through it.
— from Apologia Pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

654 A crystal globe hung up in the air hath light all about it, all within it, every part is pierced by it, wherever you see the crystal you see the light; the light in one part of the crystal cannot be distinguished from the light in the other part; and the whole essence of light is in every part; and shall not God be as much present with his creatures, as one creature can be with another?
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

Can you say, 'The life that I live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave Himself for me?' CHRIST HASTENING TO THE CROSS '
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren