For a long time we gazed at each other like that, but she did not drop her eyes before mine and her expression did not change, so that at last I felt uncomfortable.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Or else: "Of love to die make me, beautiful marchioness, your beautiful eyes."
— from The Middle-Class Gentleman by Molière

For when these quicker elements are gone In tender embassy of love to thee, My life being made of four, with two alone, Sinks down to death, oppressed with melancholy.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Moreover, our citizens will be rid of the lesser evils of life; there will be no flattery of the rich, no sordid household cares, no borrowing and not paying.
— from The Republic by Plato

I know enough of law to understand that Mary would be held as accomplice.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

When the eunuchs had secretly pronounced the exile of Liberius, the well-grounded apprehension of a tumult engaged them to use the utmost precautions in the execution of the sentence.
— 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

I like to talk to him, because he’s so clever and amusing—I wish Sir Thomas Ashby were half as nice; besides, I must have somebody to flirt with, and no one else has the sense to come here; and when we go out, mamma won’t let me flirt with anybody but Sir Thomas—if he’s there; and if he’s not there, I’m bound hand and foot, for fear somebody should go and make up some exaggerated story, and put it into his head that I’m engaged, or likely to be engaged, to somebody else; or, what is more probable, for fear his nasty old mother should see or hear of my ongoings, and conclude that I’m not a fit wife for her excellent son: as if the said son were not the greatest scamp in Christendom; and as if any woman of common decency were not a world too good for him.’
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Es sei jeder vollendet in sich —Let no one be like another, yet every one like the Highest.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Lord Wellington issued forth from his entrenchments on learning the movements which announced to him our retreat.
— from World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France by François Guizot

Land values, aside from improvements, [pg 304] are everywhere evidence of limitations to welfare in some special direction.
— from Rural Wealth and Welfare: Economic Principles Illustrated and Applied in Farm Life by Geo. T. (George Thompson) Fairchild

A number consisting of 11.14.5.1.0 is recorded in connection with the date 6 Ahau 18 Kayab , but as this date does not appear to be fixed in the Long Count, there is no way of ascertaining whether it is earlier or later than the starting point of Maya chronology.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

This so frightens them that they dare not pass, and gather together in a string, when the Indians kill them with stones tied to the ends of leather thongs.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time. by Robert Kerr

" There was a moment's pause, while they looked at each other like two awkward young puppies.
— from Dick Lester of Kurrajong by Mary Grant Bruce

To part with thee I needs must die, Could parting sep’rate thee and I. 2 But neither Chance nor Complement Did element our Love; ’Twas sacred sympathy was lent Us from the Quire above.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

They hated each other like three spiders in one web.
— from Seldwyla Folks: Three Singular Tales by Gottfried Keller

My wandering fancy broke down barriers, arranged the events of life to my liking, and steeped me in happiness and love.
— from The Magic Skin by Honoré de Balzac

At the mouth of the creek at the head of the inlet, the freshening current was alive with fish, and some of the energetic ones landed there, and, pushing ahead for exploration, were soon lost to sight in the high grass and the underbrush that fringed the forest.
— from Alaska, Its Southern Coast and the Sitkan Archipelago by Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

After the example of Lord Thurlow, in Orby Hunter’s case, I shall act upon the notion that this Court has such jurisdiction, until the House of Lords shall decide that my predecessors have been unwarranted in the exercise of it.
— from The Real Shelley. New Views of the Poet's Life. Vol. 2 (of 2) by John Cordy Jeaffreson