Though the face before me was that of a young woman of certainly not more than thirty years, in perfect health, and the first flush of ripened beauty, yet it had stamped upon it a look of unutterable experience, and of deep acquaintance with grief and passion.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Clapping her hands softly she cried out, “Oh you witty rogue, you are a fountain of repartee, but you never knew before that a catamite was called a k-night-cap, now did you?”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Your womanish outburst of despairing tears over, a hot fever of restlessness besets you.
— from Idolatry: A Romance by Julian Hawthorne

He thought that ended the affair, except for his lifelong remorse; hoped he might die soon; impossible to be forgiven, or regarded by you in any light but that of a loathsome object—regular stage part, you know, but perfectly sincere: if you like innocence, he can supply a first-class article.
— from A Pessimist in Theory and Practice by Frederic Mayer Bird

No man can with a good Conscience take a fee or Reward before ye partie receive benefit apparent and then he is not to demand anything but what God shall putt it into the heart of the partie to give him.
— from Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle

“Sometimes,” said the book-agent, picking his teeth with a quill, “you 'll go to a house, and they 'll say they can't be induced to buy a book of any kind, historical, fictitious, or religious; but you just keep on talking, and show the pictures—'Grant in Boyhood,' 'Grant a Tanner,' Grant at Head-quarters,' 'Grant in the White House,' 'Grant before Queen Victoria,' and they warm up, I tell you, and not infrequently buy.”
— from Eli First published in the "Century Magazine" by Heman White Chaplin

"For one reason, because you are the only decent woman I have ever met—save one.
— from A Woman's Burden: A Novel by Fergus Hume

I have never dared to lecture him on the subject of his expense and extravagance; in the first place, because I am at least as foolish as he is; and then for other reasons; but you on the contrary could—" Madame de Lucenay did not finish; suddenly she heard the voice of Florestan de Saint Remy.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

"This feeling of rancour between you and me.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Take twelve spoonfuls of right red Rose-water, the weight of six pence in fine powder of Sugar, and boil it on hot Embers and Coles softly, and the house will smell as though it were full of Roses; but you must burn the sweet Cypress wood before, to take away the gross air.
— from A Queens Delight The Art of Preserving, Conserving and Candying. As also, A right Knowledge of making Perfumes, and Distilling the most Excellent Waters. by Anonymous

She had been very happy and fully occupied; Raymond, being younger and stronger than her parents, was more competent to escort her to every height or depth to which she wished to go, hunted up information for her, and was her most obedient servant, only resisting any prolongation of the journey beyond the legitimate four weeks; nor indeed had Cecil been desirous of deferring her introduction to her new sphere.
— from The Three Brides by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge