“Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Stop whining, and begin singing, then will your feet be loosed from the stocks and the iron gates open outward before you.
— from Supreme Personality: Fun in Living. A Doubt, Fear, and Worry Cure by Delmer Eugene Croft

Besides, there's always a nice hansom right at the door whenever one wants to go out.' 'Oh, but you mustn't ride in hansoms, you know!' 'Why?
— from A Woman Intervenes by Robert Barr

None of these elements [142] are to be found in the stories of Beowulf, Grettir, Orm or Bjarki, yet they are essential to the fairy tale
— from Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn by R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers

"If you want to go out of bounds, you have to report at the office and get permission.
— from The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Edward Stratemeyer

And so, to you, my brothers, I say: Take heed to yourselves; you stand with the greatest opportunity opening before you, mighty possibilities lie in the near future, which are yours if your hands are pure and your hearts are clean.
— from Theosophy and Life's Deeper Problems Being the Four Convention Lectures Delivered in Bombay at the Fortieth Anniversary of the Theosophical Society, December, 1915 by Annie Besant

It will not do to delay until we are clogged with prudence and limping with rheumatism, and people begin to ask us: “What does Gravity out of bed?” Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other both in mind and body; to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani .
— from Virginibus Puerisque, and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson

He sat down and took his part in the conversation; he let it transpire for Clementina's benefit that he had been to Los Gatos only on business, yet there was no opportunity for even a significant glance, and he had the added embarrassment of seeing that she exhibited no surprise nor seemed to attach the least importance to his inopportune visit.
— from A First Family of Tasajara by Bret Harte

I hope you will be able to explain when you get out, or back you'll go for another six."
— from Jiglets: A series of sidesplitting gyrations reeled off— by Walter Jones