Sit down at the upper end, as you should do; and your father shall sit by you, there.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

The Africanus of new Rome was born, and perhaps educated, among the Thracian peasants, without any of those advantages which had formed the virtues of the elder and younger Scipio; a noble origin, liberal studies, and the emulation of a free state.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“This is one of the goals,” said East, “and you see the other, across there, right opposite, under the Doctor's wall.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Doest not thou perceive, how many things there be, which notwithstanding any pretence of natural indisposition and unfitness, thou mightest have performed and exhibited, and yet still thou doest voluntarily continue drooping downwards?
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Often in prison Faria had said to him, when he saw him idle and inactive: “Dantès, you must not give way to this listlessness; you will be drowned if you seek to escape, and your strength has not been properly exercised and prepared for exertion.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

You sketched them to the Eagle as you saw: They were not like your portrait;—am
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Tedious it were to tell, and harsh to hear; Sufficeth I am come to keep my word, Though in some part enforced to digress; Which at more leisure I will so excuse As you shall well be satisfied withal.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

And although this latter is partly disproven by the fact of their existence among you, still even in your cities the common meals of women would be regarded as unnatural and impossible.
— from Laws by Plato

The prostate and other parts around the neck of the bladder are very elastic and yielding, so that without much solution of their continuity, and without the least laceration, the opening can be so dilated as to admit the fore-finger readily through the same wound; the forceps can be introduced upon this as a guide, and they can also be removed along with a stone of considerable dimensions, say from three to nearly five inches in circumference, in one direction, and from four to six in the largest.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The day of arrival at Hancock was in the ninth month of a War that had not been lacking in vigor of movement on the part of the foe which the Government had encountered, and yet so little of system had been attained, and so little of war wisdom sought after, that a regiment of soldiers was travelled from Harrisburg without arms, and that to a point just across a river, narrow and shallow, from where lie the forces whose movements the regiment had been sent to check.
— from Eighty-fourth Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers (Infantry.) by Thomas Edward Merchant

And yet your eyes and your skin are like a child's.
— from Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan

In the great square dining-room at Kencote the Squire was sitting over his wine, with his eldest and youngest sons.
— from The Honour of the Clintons by Archibald Marshall

“Thank you; but what prevents my impressing you, even as you stand there?”
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

And Socrates, looking after him, said, Fare thou, too, well; and we will do even as you say.
— from Four Phases of Morals: Socrates, Aristotle, Christianity, Utilitarianism by John Stuart Blackie

Why should I interfere with an American ship, even though she be engaged, as you suggest, in affording aid and encouragement to the revolutionaries?”
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

"Even as you say," replied the Baron; "but it often astonishes me, that, coming from that fresh green world of yours beyond the sea, you should feel so much interest in these old things; nay, at times, seem so to have drunk in their spirit, as really to live in the times of old.
— from Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You knew that was a tender point with us long since; and if Sartwell is your enemy, as you said he was, I can’t see for the life of me why——” “Oh, there is no need of any secrecy about it, Gibbons.
— from The Mutable Many: A Novel by Robert Barr

It will be absurd enough, I dare say, yet it will serve to pass the evening, and your son too may be amused."
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor