If you'd got your living to haul out of the river every day of your life, you mightn't be much given to supposing.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Ah, put it down on your little yellow paper.
— from Writing for Vaudeville by Brett Page

“Suppose again, that by successive cannon shots, you have been deprived of your limbs; your arms and legs have been shot away, and, as nearly as is compatible with continued existence, you are reduced to a mere trunk.
— from Blue-Stocking Hall, (Vol. 3 of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

to hear behind a screen the disparagement of your lips, your eyes thought deceitful, and, in addition, a sentence of general ugliness passed upon you?
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 by Various

To the tune of a fife They dispose of your life, You surrender your soul to some illigant lilt; Now, I like Garryowen, When I hear it at home,
— from Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

For fifteen days of your life you have gone fasting, unwashen to bed— but I for fifteen years of mine; consider me that, sir.
— from The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Hewlett

Supposing that you had been born mature and full of experience, and that yesterday had been the first day of your life, you would regard it to-day as an experiment, you would challenge each act in it, and you would probably arrange to-morrow in a manner that showed a healthy disrespect for yesterday.
— from Mental Efficiency, and Other Hints to Men and Women by Arnold Bennett

She laughed as she replied, “I see there is little danger of your leaving your heart in England.”
— from Sketches and Studies by Nathaniel Hawthorne