This is manly sorrow; These tears, I am very certain, never grew In my mother's milk.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Three days after Twelfth Night, having paid a visit to the casino of Muran for the purpose of placing some gold in M—— M—— ‘s bureau, the door-keeper handed me a letter from my nun.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The dear, sweet little girl, it makes my heart ache to think how utterly she is cut off from all that is good and desirable in life.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

I really, madam, wonder at your taste (Come, sir, get in)—my master must be near: There, for the present, at the least, he's fast,
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

I must and will root out my prejudice against him, I cannot think how it first got into my mind.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Genus immortale manet, multosque per annos Stat fortuna Domus, et avi numerantur avorum.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

As soon as self-interest makes us give a promise, a greater interest may make us break it; it is merely a question of doing it with impunity; we naturally take refuge in concealment and falsehood.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Give it me.' Mary Anne immediately hooked her right arm behind her in her left hand—an attitude absolutely necessary to the situation—and replied: 'One is indicative mood, present tense, third person singular, verb active to say.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Nurse, give it me; my sword shall soon dispatch it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[232] Mozart describes thus his manner of composing: First bits and crumbs of the piece come and gradually join together in his mind; then the soul getting warmed to the work, the thing grows more and more, "and I spread it out broader and clearer, and at last it gets almost finished in my head, even when it is a long piece, so that I can see the whole of it at a single glance in my mind, as if it were a beautiful painting or a handsome human being; in which way I do not hear it in my imagination at all as a succession—the way it must come later—but all at once, as it were.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

"Alla Acbar!" says Ockley, means, "God is most mighty."
— from The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes by Thomas Moore

If you hadn't been sent to save me, I should ha' gone to the grave in my misery.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Montserrat 3 parishes; Saint Anthony, Saint Georges, Saint Peter Morocco 15 regions; Grand Casablanca, Chaouia-Ouardigha, Doukkala-Abda, Fes-Boulemane, Gharb-Chrarda-Beni Hssen, Guelmim-Es Smara, Laayoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra, Marrakech-Tensift-Al Haouz, Meknes-Tafilalet, Oriental, Rabat-Sale-Zemmour-Zaer, Souss-Massa-Draa, Tadla-Azilal, Tanger-Tetouan, Taza-Al Hoceima-Taounate note: Morocco claims the territory of Western Sahara, the political status of which is considered undetermined by the US Government; portions of the regions Guelmim-Es Smara and Laayoune-Boujdour-Sakia El Hamra as claimed by Morocco lie within Western Sahara; Morocco claims another region, Oued Eddahab-Lagouira, which falls entirely within Western Sahara Mozambique 10 provinces (provincias, singular - provincia), 1 city (cidade)*; Cabo Delgado, Gaza, Inhambane, Manica, Maputo, Cidade de Maputo*, Nampula, Niassa, Sofala, Tete, Zambezia Namibia n13 regions; Caprivi, Erongo, Hardap, Karas, Khomas, Kunene, Ohangwena, Okavango, Omaheke, Omusati, Oshana, Oshikoto, Otjozondjupa Nauru 14 districts; Aiwo, Anabar, Anetan, Anibare, Baiti, Boe, Buada, Denigomodu, Ewa, Ijuw, Meneng, Nibok, Uaboe, Yaren Nepal 14 zones (anchal, singular and plural); Bagmati, Bheri, Dhawalagiri, Gandaki, Janakpur, Karnali, Kosi, Lumbini, Mahakali, Mechi, Narayani, Rapti, Sagarmatha, Seti Netherlands 12 provinces (provincies, singular - provincie); Drenthe, Flevoland, Friesland (Fryslan), Gelderland, Groningen, Limburg, Noord-Brabant (North Brabant), Noord-Holland (North Holland), Overijssel, Utrecht, Zeeland, Zuid-Holland (South Holland)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I asked, a dreadful inkling growing inside my mind.
— from The Secret Martians by Jack Sharkey

'Das macht nichts'—gut or no gut, I muss mein duty do.
— from The Little Man: A Farcical Morality in Three Scenes by John Galsworthy

He did little enough good in marrying me.
— from Servants of Sin: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

"Give it me, my honest Chancellor," said the Empress, taking it from his hand, and not very well pleased with his manner to her favourite; "dead men tell no tales!"
— from The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 2 (of 4) by Jane Porter

In the happy days of yore, When I ust to lean above it on the old sickamore, Oh! it showed me a face in its warm sunny tide That gazed back at me so gay and glorified, It made me love myself as I leaped to caress
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson