Aid me for to win her, and I'll be asking God to stretch a hand to you in the hour of death, and lead you short cuts through the Meadows of Ease, and up the floor of Heaven to the Footstool of the Virgin's Son.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

You've seen my doings this day, and let you save me from the old man; for why would you be in such a scorch of haste to spur me to destruction now? PEGEEN.
— from The Playboy of the Western World: A Comedy in Three Acts by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

He had a son, whose name was Tenot Dandin, a lusty, young, sturdy, frisking roister, so help me God! who likewise, in imitation of his peace-making father, would have undertaken and meddled with the making up of variances and deciding of controversies betwixt disagreeing and contentious party-pleaders; as you know, Saepe solet similis esse patri.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

If e'er ye rush'd in crowds, with vast delight, To hail your hero glorious from the fight, Now meet him dead, and let your sorrows flow; Your common triumph, and your common woe.
— from The Iliad by Homer

DASnet also lets you send email as telex, fax and by ordinary mail.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

It was necessary to make him detest a lie; you should have rather endeavoured to make him a lover of the truth by displaying it to him in all its native beauty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Por una coincidencia difícil de explicar, dado el alejamiento y la falta de intercambio, el pensamiento francés traducía casi todos los matices nacientes del alma latinoamericana y se superponía tan exactamente a sus anhelos, que en determinados casos parecía
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

3. de sale gen. c. 22. gives instance in a Florentine gentleman, that was so deceived with a wife, she was so radiantly set out with rings and jewels, lawns, scarves, laces, gold, spangles, and gaudy devices, that the young man took her to be a goddess (for he never saw her but by torchlight); but after the wedding solemnities, when as he viewed her the next morning without her tires, and in a clear day, she was so deformed, a lean, yellow, shrivelled, &c., such a beastly creature in his eyes, that he could not endure to look upon her.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But if so dire a love your soul invades, As twice below to view the trembling shades; If you so hard a toil will undertake, As twice to pass th’ innavigable lake; Receive my counsel.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

“Well, young gentlemen,” said Uncle Dick, at last, “you seem gladder to see that gun than you are to see me.”
— from The Young Alaskans by Emerson Hough

When his faithful cashier died, after long years spent in his service, he manifested the most hardened indifference to the bereavement of the family of that gentleman, and left them to struggle along as best they could."
— from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus Myers

The policeman turned, and at the sight of his pale, heavy jowl, cut by the cheek-strap, and the bullying eyes, he felt both hate and fear, as if brought face to face with all that he despised and loathed, yet strangely dreaded.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Whether persuasion or bodily force brought about the result, after Nelson—having said ‘good-bye’ to his distinguished and lovely young sweetheart—secretly stole ashore again, is uncertain.
— from Summer Provinces by the Sea A description of the Vacation Resources of Eastern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada, in the territory served by the Canadian Government Railways by Prince Edward Island Railway

Your people had got into a habit of putting in nickels instead of dimes, and letting you sweat for the difference.
— from The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic

"Doctor," she said, "couldn't you have let me die?" "And left your son and your little daughter to them?"
— from A Daughter of the Land by Gene Stratton-Porter

In this I but adopted the maxim of my favourite Guzman de Alfarache , who says, “ ganar amigos es dar dinero a logro y sembrar en regadio .”
— from Excursions in the mountains of Ronda and Granada, with characteristic sketches of the inhabitants of southern Spain, vol. 1/2 by C. Rochfort‏ (Charles Rochfort) Scott

When his faithful cashier died, after long years spent in his service, he manifested the most hardened indifference to the bereavement of the family of that gentleman, and left them to struggle along as best they could.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe