At such times you go by my volition and not by his; and this power to good of you and others, as you have won from your suffering at his hands.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

To think of a gell o' your age wanting to go and sit with half-a-dozen men!
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

A host who asks you to smoke, will generally offer you an old coat for the purpose.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Go on; you are very right.’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Cosette, who made it her law to please her father, and to whom, moreover, all spectacles were a novelty, accepted this diversion with the light and easy good grace of youth, and did not pout too disdainfully at that flutter of enjoyment called a public fête; so that Jean Valjean was able to believe that he had succeeded, and that no trace of that hideous vision remained.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

And I'll salute your Grace of York as mother
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Any one could judge of your behaviour from the elaboration and gaudiness of your attire.
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

At Baffa she abode some time with the merchant till, as chance would have it, there came thither, for his occasions, a gentleman by name Antigonus, great of years and greater yet of wit, but little of wealth, for that, intermeddling in the affairs of the King of Cyprus, fortune had in many things been contrary to him.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

,” said the doctor, “this is very good of you, this is downright good of you, and I cannot find words to thank you in.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

They burned as hotly with the glow of youth as with the glow for glory, and thus rushed headlong into right or wrong with equal recklessness.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

[Pg 288] Then, gathered all about the trees Glad galaxies of youth are dancing, Treading the perfume of the flowers, Filling the hours with mazy glancing.
— from The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge with Introductions by Lord Dunsany by Francis Ledwidge

I should so much wish to have a glimpse of you, and a chat, before the plot thickens with us, so as to get the bearings.
— from Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone by Acton, John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, Baron

"I maun alloo, hooever," the old woman went on, "'at ance ye get a haud o' THEM, they tak a grip o' YOU, an' hae a queer w'y o' hauntin' ye like, as they did the man himsel', sae 'at ye canna yet rid o' them.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

For the present, therefore, I shall continue to do the washing, though I shall be glad of your assistance in the matter of drying and ironing!"
— from Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and Adventures by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

True it is, that I never look heavenward without thinking of you, and I doubt whether it would much surprise me to catch a glimpse of you among those upper regions.
— from Love Letters of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Volume 1 (of 2) by Nathaniel Hawthorne

For at a time when I should be scarcely so far master of myself as to be able to find any solace for my afflicted mind, did not fear deaden the sense of sorrow, I am compelled to take upon myself alone the task of consulting for the good of you all; a task of the greatest difficulty when under the influence of grief.
— from The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livy

But now, while it is true that I can't get out, you are moaning, 'What on earth shall I do with him, now that I have got him?'"
— from Psmith, Journalist by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

This study of human nature is my business, and it appears to me that the world is very much as it was—that Eden is still possible to those who are fit for it; and it is beyond question that love, courtship, and marriage are words to conjure with in the garden of youth, and that a love-story has yet the power to charm even sober men and women of middle age, for whom romance is mistakenly supposed to be over.
— from Courtship and Marriage, and the Gentle Art of Home-Making by Annie S. Swan

We first knew Louis Stevenson when his schooldays and teens were past, and he was facing what he called “the equinoctial gales of youth,” and beginning to put his self-taught art of writing into print.
— from Essays from the Chap-Book Being a Miscellany of Curious and interesting Tales, Histories, &c; newly composed by Many Celebrated Writers and very delightful to read. by Various