They who were asleep turned over on their rude couches to dream of youth, and love, and olden days.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

In consequence of these determinations, our young adventurer led a very easy life, in quality of page to the Count, in whose tent he lay upon a pallet, close to his field-bed, and often diverted him with his childish prattle in the English tongue, which the more seldom his master had occasion to speak, he the more delighted to hear.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

So I to Auditor Wood’s, and thereto meet, and met my Lord Bellassis upon some business of his accounts, and having done that did thence go to St. James’s, and attended the Duke of York a little, being the first time of my waiting on him at St. James’s this summer, whither he is now newly gone and thence walked to White Hall; and so, by and by, to the Council-Chamber, and heard a remarkable cause pleaded between the Farmers of the Excise of Wiltshire, in complaint against the justices of Peace of Salisbury: and Sir H. Finch was for the former.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The Torments of Shame and Disappointment on you all! LADY TEAZLE.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

However, you'll all find, if you haven't found it out already, that a time comes in every human friendship when you must go down into the depths of yourself, and lay bare what is there to your friend, and wait in fear for his answer.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

James, Duke of York, also left the country from this same place on the night of April 20th, 1648, when he escaped from St. James’s Palace.]
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Here Sir W. Pen did show the Duke of York a letter of Hogg’s about a prize he drove in within the Sound at Plymouth, where the Vice-Admiral claims her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He told me over the story of Mrs. Stewart, much after the manner which I was told it long since, and have entered it in this book, told me by Mr. Evelyn; only he says it is verily believed that the King did never intend to marry her to any but himself, and that the Duke of York and Lord Chancellor were jealous of it; and that Mrs. Stewart might be got with child by the King, or somebody else, and the King own a marriage before his contract, for it is but a contract, as he tells me, to this day, with the Queene, and so wipe their noses of the Crown; and that, therefore, the Duke of York and Chancellor did do all they could to forward the match with my Lord Duke of Richmond, that she might be married out of the way; but, above all, it is a worthy part that this good lady hath acted.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Thence to White Hall by water, and there with the Duke of York a little, but stayed not, but saw him and his lady at his little pretty chapel, where I never was before: but silly devotion, God knows!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

" "We will not hope for either," said Wulfrey soberly, "for that means more deaths out yonder——" A long shrill scream outside sent a creepy chill down his spine for a moment.
— from Maid of the Mist by John Oxenham

have you not the luck of all your brother projectors, to deceive only yourself at last?
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley

So he makes a dwarf of you, a little bear dwarf—" Jenny, however, had heard this phrase often enough by now.
— from Clementina by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

Portions of it became New York, so named after the future James II, who was Duke of York and Lord High Admiral, and other parts were colonized as Pennsylvania by the Quaker, William Penn.
— from The History of England - a Study in Political Evolution by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard

Nor here presumes denial any stormy coast Of Adriatic or the Cyclad orbed isles, A Rhodos immemorial, or that icy Thrace, Propontis, or the gusty Pontic ocean-arm, 10 Whereon, a pinnace after, in the days of yore A leafy shaw she budded; oft Cytorus' height With her did inly whisper airy colloquy.
— from The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Translated in the Metres of the Original by Gaius Valerius Catullus

Would not Louis XV. have given his kingdom to rise from the grave and have three days of youth and life!
— from A Second Home by Honoré de Balzac

Again: if, along the horizontal line, A B , Fig. 94 , we measure any number of equal distances, A b , b c , &c., and raise perpendiculars from the points b , c , d , &c., of which each perpendicular shall be longer, by some given proportion (in this figure it is one third), than the preceding one, the curve x y , traced through their extremities, will continually change its direction, but will advance into space in the direction of y as long as we continue to measure distances along the line A B , always inclining more and more to the nature of a straight line, yet never becoming one, even if continued to infinity.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin

a wood in late autumn has a strange glamour of its own, that comes over me, in spirit, even as I write of it, far, far away from country sights and sounds, further away still from the long-ago days of youth and leisure, and friends to wander with, in the Novembers that then were never gloomy.
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth