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— from The Iliad by Homer

You would have remembered the visit of the French lawyer, and you would have known what I referred to.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Besides—“—“I do know you are a woman,” cries the squire, “and it's well for thee that art one; if hadst been a man, I promise thee I had lent thee a flick long ago.”—“Ay, there,” said she, “in that flick lies all your fancied superiority.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

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— from The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare

But I fear, Lælius, and you, my amiable and learned friends, that if I were to dwell any longer on this argument, my words would seem rather like the lessons of a master, and not like the free conversation of one who is uniting with you in the consideration of truth.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Forgive me for looking at you with such curiosity.
— from The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Esther was courted by Ned Roberts, and he was as fine looking a young man, as she was a woman.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Many of our men had been wounded frequently with shot and bayonet; others were cut limb from limb, and yet a spark of life remained.
— from A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863 by T. (Timothy) Gowing