Lowther did all that he could do, and said all that he could say, to disswade Massey from so rash and dangerous an Attempt; pointing out to him the Hazard the Company would run, and the Consequences to them all, if he should not succeed, and the little Likelihood there was to expect Success from the Undertaking: But ’twas all one for that, Massey would go and attack the French Settlements, for any thing Lowther could say against it; so that he was obliged to propose the Matter to the Company, among whom Massey found a few Fellows as resolute as himself; however, a great Majority being against it, the Affair was over-ruled in Opposition to Captain Massey , notwithstanding which, Massey grew fractious, quarrelled with Lowther , and the Men divided into Parties, some siding with the Land Pyrate, and some with the Sea Rover, and were all ready to fall together by the Ears, when the Man at the Mast-head cry’d out, A Sail!
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

You can not keep a determined man from success.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

The cabman who drove me from street to street through the most isolated quarters, and whom I at last accused of keeping always to the most animated parts of the city, finally protested in despair that one did not come to Paris to live in a convent.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

“Sit down, my friend,” said Dupin.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Fled is my youth: in life's decline My former strength no more is mine.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The path of virtue she shows us each day, And we are glad to go that way; And as there’s nothing to do more fitting, She teaches us sewing, darning and knitting.
— from Walter Pieterse: A Story of Holland by Multatuli

I remember it was about this time of the year, and with what delight my friend seemed to drink in all the beauties of Nature on that quiet Sunday morning.
— from Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men by Eliezer Edwards

NORTON, Had I not fallen into fresh troubles, which disabled me for several days from holding a pen, I should not have forborne inquiring after your health, and that of your son; for I should have been but too ready to impute your silence to the cause to which, to my very great concern, I find it was owing.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 by Samuel Richardson

After her death, my father sent me to school.
— from Blind Love by Wilkie Collins

Just as it disappeared my friend said, 'Did you see that?'
— from Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

At last— "Won't do, my friend," said he.
— from The Tree of Knowledge: A Novel by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

After dinner my friends started to go out on the ice again, and I told them “I guess’d I wouldn’t go with them, I had fished enough for that day.”
— from Seven Wives and Seven Prisons Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story by L. A. Abbott