Let it be its own eulogy, let your success tell to the world the story of a noble career.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Here you call your appearance beauty, your emotions love, your sentiments heroism, your aspirations virtue, just as you did on earth; but here there are no hard facts to contradict you, no ironic contrast of your needs with your pretensions, no human comedy, nothing but a perpetual romance, a universal melodrama.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Es verdad: Its true: pues ahora sí que es mejor so now the affair is el lance: ¿y si es ése? going better.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

No resultó ni sombra de culpabilidad en la criada anciana; pero Librada confesó de plano entre lloros y suspiros todas sus bellaquerías, que 5 sintetizaremos del modo siguiente: Poco después de alojarse en la casa, el señor Pinzón empezó a hacer cocos a la señorita Rosario.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Come, my buxom widow: E’er long you shall substantial proof receive That I’m an arrant knight— FOIB.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

Nobody else will ever love you so well, or be so entirely devoted to you.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

It is sufficient, indeed, for any impartial observer that in every letter you style me, your true friend, and call me all sorts of polite [32] names, which you do, to the best of my belief, for no other object than to put my conscience to sleep.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In his eyes looked Ygg's son steadfastly.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

Ella was the only woman I had ever loved, yet she who had taken her marriage vows only a few short months before had already discarded me for this overdressed idiot, who would be termed in vulgar parlance a “bounder.”
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

You see I can do nothing without money from her—and as for you, you see she won’t even let you stay in the house unless you marry old Campan at once.
— from La Mere Bauche From Tales of All Countries by Anthony Trollope

"Elsie likes you," she said, "and I don't think she is really fond of many people.
— from The Girl from Arizona by Nina Rhoades

W. E. L .—Your story shows imagination, but is not good enough to print.—Unless you have a natural gift for ventriloquism you will find it a difficult art to learn.
— from Harper's Young People, December 7, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

It was monstrous to know that she had power to turn him from an evil life, yet she could not do it.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

“And, do you know,” said the young lady, “I’ve a little sister at home, exactly like your sister?
— from Sylvie and Bruno Concluded (Illustrated) by Lewis Carroll

A gentleman called here last evening, and inquired whether a very tall young man, dressed in a grey tweed suit, exactly like yours, sir, and having a particularly handsome brown beard, the very ditto of yours, sir, lodged in the Lambeth Road, or hereabouts.
— from Chetwynd Calverley New Edition, 1877 by William Harrison Ainsworth

'I've heerd tell o' sich things;—but I never see no one afore that hed the knowledge of 'em, like you seem to hev.
— from A Red Wallflower by Susan Warner

Anyway you escaped like you said you were going to do.
— from Roy Blakeley's Motor Caravan by Percy Keese Fitzhugh