rns his face, far-beaming heavenly fires, And from the senior power submiss retires: Him thus retreating, Artemis upbraids, The quiver'd huntress of the sylvan shades: "And is it thus the youthful Phoebus flies, And yields to ocean's hoary sire the prize?
— from The Iliad by Homer

And you be mine, I’ll give you to my friend; And you be not, hang, beg, starve, die in the streets,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Anyone else would have bowed down to his feet, and you declare you won’t marry him.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the Tatler , Mr. Bickerstaff sits in judgment on canes, and takes away a cane, "curiously clouded, with a transparent amber head, and a blue ribband to hang upon his wrist," from a young gentleman as a piece of idle foppery.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

When he came in at the door, his heart was blazed with pity and tenderness, she looked so lost and forlorn and young.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I am not intimidated, like your father and your stepmother.
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

Not even the vast earnings of all these popular novels could longer keep the wretched business of Ballantyne on its feet, and the firm failed, after years of mismanagement.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

I should then be unable to assert, with regard to one and the same being, e.g., the human soul, that its will is free, and yet, at the same time, subject to natural necessity, that is, not free, without falling into a palpable contradiction, for in both propositions I should take the soul in the same signification, as a thing in general, as a thing in itself—as, without previous criticism, I could not but take it.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

I call old Gabriel Betteredge one of my friends; and you will be amused to hear that he protested strongly when I saw him yesterday.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Ipswich, I believe, is only eighteen miles farther; and yet fifteen years later we find an advertisement ( Daily Advertiser , Thursday, Aug. 30, 1764), announcing that London and Ipswich Post Coaches on steel springs (think of that, and think of the astonished Germans careering over the country from Colchester without that mitigation), from London to Ipswich in ten hours with Postillions, set out every morning at seven o'clock, Sundays excepted, from the Black Bull Inn, in Bishopsgate Street.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 03, November 17, 1849 by Various

Know you not what fate awaits you, Or to whom the future mates you?
— from Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte

I must not change my mind, and it would be agony to part from you if I saw your face and your dear eyes.
— from The Guests Of Hercules by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Twere best you saw how to get away as fast as you came; for here lives a Troll who has six heads.”
— from East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Why, good heavens, just fancy, at your age, having to be told what the smart places are in Paris!
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

It is quite possible for people to agree as friends, and yet to make each other perfectly miserable as man and wife.
— from The Joy of Life [La joie de vivre] by Émile Zola

I fear, and yet I must be satisfied; And, to be satisfied, I must dissemble.
— from Dryden's Works Vol. 08 (of 18) by John Dryden

Now you’ve black feathers, and you seem a very ordinary sort of person.
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln

Ferdinand , a young King of Spain, in love with Florella .
— from The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Aphra Behn

It's a little gift, so to speak, just to let you know I ain't ungrateful for all you did for me.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1902 to 1903 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery