Yellow is a gayer colour, is it not? I used to wear yellow a good deal in my early days, and would do so now if Sir John was not so painfully personal in his observations, and a man on the question of dress is always ridiculous, is he not?
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

You are my own, my own, Dweller in my endless dreams!
— from The Gardener by Rabindranath Tagore

Nothing, sweet boy; but yet, like prayers divine, I must each day say o'er the very same; Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine, Even as when first I hallow'd thy fair name.
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Nothing sweet boy, but yet like prayers divine, I must each day say o’er the very same, Counting no old thing old, thou mine, I thine, Even as when first I hallowed thy fair name.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And when I die, my goods I'll give away To them that do invite me every day.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It hurt me to detect in her withered lips the quaint twist which had once been so charming to me—but then she undoubtedly discovered in me equally distressing reminders of decay.
— from A Daughter of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

The business of eating is not a very elaborate one, where the sole article of diet is meat, either dried or roasted.
— from Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier Also a History of the Sioux War, and a Life of Gen. George A. Custer with Full Account of His Last Battle by Frances Fuller Victor

He had the air and look of an honest man, but perhaps no species of deceit is more easily detected than that quiet, subdued manner, compressed lips, and uplifted eye.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

I sometimes doubt if men ever do marry the women they most admire.”
— from The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird

And I occupied some hours of another day in marking each door with a number on the outside, and putting a corresponding label to each key, before I replaced it on the ring, in order to prevent the possibility of future errors and delays.
— from The Dead Secret: A Novel by Wilkie Collins

The oak-panelling here, reaching from floor to ceiling, itself beautifully decorated, is most elaborately designed in the Renaissance way, with fluted Corinthian pilasters, supporting grotesque male and female terminal figures.
— from The Old Inns of Old England, Volume 2 (of 2) A Picturesque Account of the Ancient and Storied Hostelries of Our Own Country by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper

"Eighteen months can scarcely make so much difference----" "It makes every difference--in my case."
— from Whom God Hath Joined: A Question of Marriage by Fergus Hume

There was, therefore, no difficulty in making each day’s journey as long or short as might be desired.
— from Peggy Owen and Liberty by Lucy Foster Madison

Recherches sur la Faune Ornithologique Eteinte des iles Mascareignes et de Madagascar.
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron