Ay, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

But since diet produces a shingle shape and every one strong-minded (or vain) enough, can diet, you need only care enough to "count your calories" and be as slim as you please.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The captive bands may chain the hands, But love enslaves the man: Ye gallants braw, I rede you a', Beware o' bonie Ann! H2 anchor Ode On The Departed Regency Bill (March, 1789) Daughter of Chaos' doting years, Nurse of ten thousand hopes and fears, Whether thy airy, insubstantial shade (The rights of sepulture now duly paid) Spread abroad its hideous form
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

She said, ‘Did you not on such and such a day go to such and such a Minister’s house and look on at the gathering?’
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

To all difficulties you need only say, There is a lion in the path, behold your Constitution will not act!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

" "Do you now?" "Of course not—what footsteps are those I hear?" Liddy looked from a back window into the courtyard behind, which was now getting low-toned and dim with the earliest films of night.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

“And did you never, once, hear that the money spent a month ago was not three thousand, but less, and that Dmitri Fyodorovitch had saved half that sum for his own use?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Did you never observe, I said, the effect on the mind itself of exclusive devotion to gymnastic, or the opposite effect of an exclusive devotion to music?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

Do you?" "Not often.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Do you not observe that these athletes sleep away their 91 lives, and are liable to most dangerous illnesses if they depart, in ever so slight a degree, from their customary regimen?
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

The circumstances of my adventure were the conversation of every group; and although, I confess, I could not help feeling that even a small spice of malice might have found food for laughter in the absurdity of my durance, yet not one there could see anything in the whole affair save a grave case of smuggled tobacco, and a most unwarrantable exercise of authority on the part of the curé who liberated me.
— from Arthur O'Leary: His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Charles James Lever

[91] desert ye not our towers.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

The drive from Portland to Seattle is one long to be remembered, and while occupying a goodly number of days, yet not one moment of tedious time hung heavy on my shoulders, and on the 18th day of July, 1908, I drove into the city of Seattle and the long "trek" was ended.
— from The Busy Life of Eighty-Five Years of Ezra Meeker Ventures and adventures; sixty-three years of pioneer life in the old Oregon country; an account of the author's trip across the plains with an ox team; return trip, 1906-7; his cruise on Puget Sound, 1853; trip through the Natchess pass, 1854; over the Chilcoot pass; flat-boating on the Yukon, 1898. The Oregon trail. by Ezra Meeker

Such things are not done, yet no one pays any special attention if I take care of a bird or a grasshopper.
— from Romance of the Rabbit by Francis Jammes

All means are trying comforts to restore, To ease the hardships of the labouring poor; Think what distress awaits dishonest ways, Immured in prison many wretched days; Not only days, perhaps they shed their tears, In Foreign Lands for many dismal years; Not only years perhaps are doom’d for life, Abroad to roam, from children, home and wife: Should it your lot in prison for to be, Implore with fervent prayer the Deity; Who will in time if you sincerely pray, Lessen your troubles each succeeding day: It’s thro’ our Saviour’s aid that we should crave, A gracious pardon ere we meet the grave; His intercession with the King of Kings, Alone can save you from eternal stings.
— from Characters from Life; Or, Moral Hints. In Verse by James Parkerson

In that case, why did you not order the game resumed, especially to test out these two players?
— from Jane Allen, Right Guard by Edith Bancroft

The Arctic current varies much in different years, not only in the amount of ice it brings, but also in its direction.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

For although the highest wages were offered to any one who would undertake to tend the royal swine but for a single day, yet no one throughout the whole kingdom had yet offered himself, and the illustrious owner of the swine was in great risk of losing them all.
— from Fairy Tales From all Nations by Anthony R. (Anthony Reubens) Montalba

More than a fortnight had passed since Billy Huntington's spectacular departure, yet no one suggested that vacation days were drawing to an end.
— from The Bachelors: A Novel by William Dana Orcutt

'What do you need of me, Marquess of Montferrat? 'asked the old hierarch in his most remote voice.
— from The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay by Maurice Hewlett