I who have sat on this same hearth on the little stool that is even now beside you there, learning your lessons and looking up into your face, when your face was strange and frightened me!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Though evidently younger than she looked, Rachel's face was that of one who had known some great sorrow, some deep experience; for there were lines on the forehead that contrasted strongly with the bright, abundant hair above it; in repose, the youthfully red, soft lips had a mournful droop, and the eyes were old with that indescribable expression which comes to those who count their lives by emotions, not by years.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

Fears or plots being unknown to you in your daily relations with each other, you feel just the same with regard to your allies, and never reflect that the mistakes into which you may be led by listening to their appeals, or by giving way to your own compassion, are full of danger to yourselves, and bring you no thanks for your weakness from your allies; entirely forgetting that your empire is a despotism and your subjects disaffected conspirators, whose obedience is ensured not by your suicidal concessions, but by the superiority given you by your own strength and not their loyalty.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Before letting me begin, she said— “My dear Charles, do you see that little projection at the upper part of my quim, that is my clitoris, and is the site of the most exquisite sensation; you see it is rather hard, even now, but you will find as you titillate it with your tongue or suck it, that it will become harder and more projecting, so apply your lips there.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I said, I can expect no better: Your behaviour, sir, to me, has been just of a piece with these words: Nay, I will say it, though you were to be ever so angry.—I angry, Pamela?
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

; si eres niña buena y formal... —Pues qué, ¿no soy buena yo?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Ye looked on lives whose like earth never bore, Ye knew not those my spirit thirsted for: Therefore be dark for ever!"
— from Oedipus King of Thebes Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes by Sophocles

You have plenty of fair patterns even now before you, if you would but begin with yourself.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Then you are not in the habit of bolting your door every night before you get into bed?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

With a base of operations in Eastern Nebraska, Brigham Young quickly laid plans looking to the removal of his people to Northern Mexico, which then embraced the present territory of Utah and had been brought to his notice by Fremont's explorations.
— from The Awakening of the Desert by Julius Charles Birge

My humble prayers in my country's cause I address to your entire nation: but you, gentlemen, are the engineers through whom my cause must reach them.
— from Select Speeches of Kossuth by Lajos Kossuth

It is all plain enough now, but you cease to wonder at Bedney's superstitious solution.
— from At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

No doubt you are too bashful to kiss Ethel now, but you will surely embrace an old friend like me, who used to nurse you in my arms as a baby," giving him such an amorous hug and smack upon his cheeks that the young fellow blushed up to his eyes.
— from The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies by Anonymous

That there must be One sole God, all hands, all vision, Good Supreme, supreme in grace, One who cannot err, omniscient, One the highest, none can equal, Not beginning, yet the Beginner, One pure essence, one sole substance, One wise worker, ozone sole willer;—
— from The Wonder-Working Magician by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Let me acknowledge not only the keenness of your judgment but the sharpness of your eyesight, not because you are full of wisdom—no, don't plume yourself on that—but because you are just as wise as I am, and that is saying a great deal.
— from The Letters of the Younger Pliny, First Series — Volume 1 by the Younger Pliny

And she said, "Every night before you lie down to sleep read a chapter and pray."
— from And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses by J. Wilbur (John Wilbur) Chapman