I could well have spared them that night, but when did one of my years not respond to the endearments of the woman he loved, and who yielded all to him.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

William Herne, a master of defence, and yeoman of the guard, 1580, gave lands and tenements to the clothworkers in London; they to pay yearly for ever fourteen pounds to the churchwardens of Clarkenwell, and fourteen pounds to the churchwardens of St. Sepulcher’s, towards reparations of these churches, and relief of the poor men; more he gave after the [389] death of one man, yet living, eight pounds the year for ever to the mending of highways.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

A maiden of our century, yet most meek; A daughter of our meadows, yet not coarse; Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand; Her eyes a bashful azure, and her hair In gloss and hue the chestnut, when the shell Divides threefold to show the fruit within.
— from Maud, and Other Poems by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

“If you had to pay for the charms of conversation as you do for those of dancing or of music, your fortune would be inadequate!
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

And now dear Brethren go on with cheerfulnesse in the Work of the Lord: Let no discouragement or opposition make your heart to faint, or your hands wax feeble: Perswade [pg 299] your self the Lords hand shall still be made known toward his servants, and his indignation against his Enemies.
— from The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland by Church of Scotland. General Assembly

There had been nothing definite, obvious, or masterful, yet in those few words and actions her whole self had pleaded on its knees—and he had turned away.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

To Mr. Capel Lofft, in the September following, after stating that all his time was employed in preparing himself for orders, his estimate of the necessary qualifications being, very high, he observed: "I often, however, cast a look of fond regret to the darling occupations of my younger hours, and the tears rush into my eyes, as I fancy I see the few wild flowers of poetic genius, with which I have been blessed, withering with neglect.
— from The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by Henry Kirke White

She saw a big, supple, powerful man of twenty-five or six, with the bearing and general demeanour of one many years his elder.
— from The Valley of the Giants by Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne

But you are unwise to reproach us with a desire of obtaining money; you forget that your own Church, if the Church of England be your own Church, as I suppose it is from the willingness which you displayed in the public-house to fight for it, is equally avaricious; look at your greedy Bishops and your corpulent Rectors—do they imitate Christ in His disregard for money?
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest by George Borrow

I suppose that the dreams of our modern youth are entirely commercial.
— from The Quest of the Golden Girl: A Romance by Richard Le Gallienne

How can it depend on other men?—Yen Yüan said: Kindly tell me the practical rule to be deduced from this.—The Master replied: Do not use your eyes, your ears, your power of speech or your faculty of movement without obeying the inner law of self-control.
— from The Sayings of Confucius A New Translation of the Greater Part of the Confucian Analects by Confucius