“Do you also, O fellow-citizens,” said Æsop , “submit to the present evil, lest a greater one befall you.”
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Well, let us go on board your felucca.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But the element of affinity which he presents to Winckelmann is that which is wholly Greek, and alien from the Christian world, represented by that group of brilliant youths in the Lysis, still uninfected by any spiritual sickness, finding the end of all endeavour in the aspects of the human form, the continual stir and motion of a comely human life.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

granted the job is going on, but you see I am poor.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I will direct all parties going out to bear a white flag, and not to attempt to go beyond where we have dead or wounded, and not beyond or on ground occupied by your troops.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

I know For bride and groom one battle yet untried, And goodly pains for him that gave the bride.
— from Medea of Euripides by Euripides

Your heart is undoubtedly a kind, good one, but you are not merry.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Then I will not go on, but you must keep me company all night.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

CHAPTER XX To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton commissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine’s pony; and, said he—‘As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or bad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot associate with him hereafter, and it is better for her to remain in ignorance of his proximity; lest she should be restless, and anxious to visit the Heights.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets, With which the Doctor paid off an old pox, By borrowing a new one from an ox.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

“Get some good opinion before you part with it, mother.
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

And you with that little old gun out before you even seen me!"
— from Overland Red: A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail by Henry Herbert Knibbs

"Don't you utter one word of this disgusting tale to her grace," she had said fiercely as she had sailed through the door of the ladies-maids' room, held meekly open for her by one of the under-maids, who had been caught gossiping, "or back you go to England, both of you."
— from The Hawk of Egypt by Joan Conquest

"I hear you had a great game of baseball yesterday.
— from The Competitive Nephew by Montague Glass

Snaky shadows milled horribly close to the little group of bulging yellow figures.
— from Astounding Stories, February, 1931 by Various

I'll go off before you.
— from The Wings of the Dove, Volume II by Henry James

'Go on by yourself!'
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

And while all this is going on, Babe, you take charge of making a sling.
— from The Boy Scout Fire Fighters by Irving Crump

Then Christian and Hopeful looked upon one another, with tears gushing out, but yet said nothing to the Shepherds.[230]
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan