The talk I have given is from the young warriors I have raised in my town, as well as myself.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

I have bought the pipe of wine from him, and now I give it freely to you to drink as ye list.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

With respect to the means by which this strange and odious instinct was acquired, if it were of great importance for the young cuckoo, as is probably the case, to receive as much food as possible soon after birth, I can see no special difficulty in its having gradually acquired, during successive generations, the blind desire, the strength, and structure necessary for the work of ejection; for those cuckoos which had such habits and structure best developed would be the most securely reared.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

God is favorable to you, and He sent me to Adam.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

I was so bewildered by your departure and so overcome with grief at our separation, that I am sure I was able to but very feebly express all the affection and gratitude I feel toward you.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“But my remark,” resumed Mr. Buckingham, “had no reference to your age at the period of interment (I am willing to grant, in fact, that you are still a young man), and my illusion was to the immensity of time during which, by your own showing, you must have been done up in asphaltum.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

So home to dinner, and then to the office a little, and so to see my Lord Brouncker, who is a little ill of the gout; and there Madam Williams told me that she heard that my wife was going into France this year, which I did not deny, if I can get time, and I pray God I may.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

You were got in fear, Though you were born in Rome.'
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

This used to be considered a freshman house, but all those who were freshmen with us have stayed on, and if last year's freshmen stay, too, then Wayne Hall will be full and—" "I won't get in," finished the young woman calmly.
— from Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College by Josephine Chase

I am convinced of your sincerity; but as I have before described the character of the gratitude I feel towards you in a letter written likewise in this house, I have only to say, that every sentiment in that letter remains unabated and unalterable.
— from Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 02 by Thomas Moore

Sir 6:18 My son, gather instruction from thy youth up: so shalt thou find wisdom till thine old age.
— from Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha by Anonymous

My dear Harry,” continued I, taking his hand and pressing it warmly, “if you only knew the agony of mind I have suffered on her account, you would be able to form some slight idea of the amount of gratitude I feel towards you for having rescued her.
— from Frank Fairlegh: Scenes from the Life of a Private Pupil by Frank E. (Frank Edward) Smedley

Laws passed by this legislature and not vetoed by the governor or the king were to go in force three years after their enactment.
— from The Siege of Boston by Allen French

He therefore agreed that the undesired betrothal with Sir Richard Forth should be set aside at once; and he also signified his consent to Elvira's marriage with Lord Arthur Talbot, giving instructions for the young Cavalier to be admitted into the fortress on the morrow, that the nuptials might be celebrated there without further delay.
— from Stories from the Operas by Gladys Davidson

"No! I'm going in for two years' law, then I'm going into politics.
— from Lydia of the Pines by Honoré Morrow

The little foot stamped the ground impatiently, for the young lord stood there with open mouth.
— from The Sign of Flame by E. Werner

But let us go in, friend, that you may address your thanksgivings to the god.
— from The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes