Here they talk also how the King’s viallin,—[violin]— Bannister, is mad that the King hath a Frenchman come to be chief of some part of the King’s musique, at which the Duke of York made great mirth.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

A young woman, who loves, who doats on you, who dies for you; who hath placed the utmost confidence in your promises; and to that confidence hath sacrificed everything which is dear to her?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Try not to repeat yourself; either by telling the same story again and again or by going back over details of your narrative that seemed especially to interest or amuse your hearer.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The King and Duke of York up and down all the day here and there: some time on Tower Hill, where the City militia was; where the King did make a speech to them, that they should venture themselves no further than he would himself.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You don’t know what it is to be awakened out of a sound sleep, after a long and arduous journey, by two great girls coming bounce down on you.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

By water to White Hall, there to a committee of Tangier, but they not met yet, I went to St. James’s, there thinking to have opportunity to speak to the Duke of York about the petition I have to make to him for something in reward for my service this war, but I did waive it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If you are a musician, and certain that you will confer pleasure by a display of your talents, do not make a show of reluctance when invited to play or sing.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

He come only to see how matters go, and tells me, as a secret, that last night the Duke of York’s closet was broken open, and his cabinets, and shut again, one of them that the rogue that did it hath left plate and a watch behind him, and therefore they fear that it was only for papers, which looks like a very malicious business in design, to hurt the Duke of York; but they cannot know that till the Duke of York comes to town about the papers, and therefore make no words of it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

After that done, upon the quarter-deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coventry, [William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the Lord Keeper.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I told them: “If you are here to obey the voice of your conscience and the dictates of your common sense, there is a glorious task before you.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

"Now, good Cousrouf, the days of your rule are numbered."
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

“Keep aloof!” cried Denys, “or you are a dead man.”
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

Another factor which, in the Guardian’s opinion, is essential to the development of your N.S.A. is the holding of frequent meetings.
— from Dawn of a New Day by Effendi Shoghi

In the same historical play King Henry again describes his condition, harassed by the rebel Jack Cade and the troublesome Duke of York, as “Like to a ship, that having ’scaped a tempest, Is straightway calmed and boarded with a pirate.”
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 4 by Frederick Whymper

"You think such a deal of yourselves that it does you all the good in the world.
— from The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

Among new grammarians figures the tutor to the children of the Duke of York (James II.), Pierre de Lainé, who may possibly have been identical with the Pierre Lainé who published a grammar in 1655.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley