That if Mrs. Cholmondeley should be fondling her lapdog at some window, or Colonel de Hamal picking his teeth in a balcony, and should catch a glimpse of us, you would not quite blush for your companion?" "Yes," said she, with that directness which was her best point—which gave an honest plainness to her very fibs when she told them—which was, in short, the salt, the sole preservative ingredient of a character otherwise not formed to keep.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Go on until you come to the place where you made a bark shelter a long time ago, and under the bark you will find something to help you.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

As to the future, I am pleased to know that your army is being steadily reinforced by a good class of men, and I hope it will go on until you have a force that is numerically double that of your antagonist, so that with one part you can watch him, and with the other push out boldly from your left flank, occupy the Southside Railroad, compel him to attack you in position, or accept battle on your own terms.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The direction of the Professor of English to "Begin at the beginning of what you have to say, and go on until you have finished, and then stop," is very like a celebrated artist's direction for painting: "You simply take a little of the right color paint and put it on the right spot."
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

You cannot give orders unless you can do the work yourself; that is why her mother sets her to do it.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

‘I am very sorry to make any further objection, but I cannot consent to go on, unless you carry it as Winkle does his.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

But since she has breathed into you a soul, and implanted in you intelligence by means of which you now behold in memory many past events, though they are no longer before you: and further since your reasoning power discovers many future events and reveals them as it were to the eyes of your mind; and again your imagination sketches for you not only those present events which are going on under your eyes and allows you to judge and survey them, but also reveals to you things at a distance and many thousand stades 329 removed more clearly than what is going on at your feet and before your eyes, what need is there for such grief and resentment?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

And then if you will go on until you know every street crossing, the character, size, and position of the crossing-stones, and the varying depth of mud in each of those numberless places, you will have some idea of what the pilot must know in order to keep a Mississippi steamer out of trouble.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

And I assure you you do me a great injustice if you think I would not as willingly go out under your orders as under those of all the Marshals of the Empire.”
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

“Only steel and concrete have stood the gaff of uncounted years!
— from Darkness and Dawn by George Allan England

No. Q. Had you any knowledge that your men would not go out until you met them—those two men? A. None whatever.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

Strong and victorious came the swelling strain, and his uplifted eyes had the glow of unconquerable youth.
— from The Web of Time by Robert E. (Robert Edward) Knowles

The excavation seems to have gone on uninterruptedly year by year, the painting and adornment being finished as it progressed, till the hand of death ended the king’s reign, and simultaneously the works of his tomb.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

Don't go out unless you can protect yourself.
— from Trading Jeff and His Dog by Jim Kjelgaard

The larger the number of people who use your operating system, make programs for your type of computer, create new levels for your game, or use your device, the better off you are.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle