She stood in front of the horses and said, "Take this, make a drink-offering to father Jove, and since you are minded to go to the ships in spite of me, pray that you may come safely back from the hands of your enemies.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Written by the hand of your entire Servant, H. R.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

Now through this long tour which I have led you, you observe the good people are better off by far, than in the polar countries which we have just left:—for if you hold your hand over your eyes, and look very attentively, you may perceive some small glimmerings (as it were) of wit, with a comfortable provision of good plain houshold judgment, which, taking the quality and quantity of it together, they make a very good shift with——and had they more of either the one or the other, it would destroy the proper balance betwixt them, and I am satisfied moreover they would want occasions to put them to use.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

my house?” “Oh, your excellency, it was not yours, then.” “Whose, then?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

And, if aught here offend your ear or sight, We only act and speak what others write.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

This is the feeding and leading we have had of you: EMPTINESS,—of pocket, of stomach, of head, and of heart.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

if your honour did but know how I rejoice to see—Blessed be his holy name, that made me the humble instrument—But as for the lucre of gain, I renounce it—I have done no more than my duty—No more than I would have done for the most worthless of my fellow-creatures—No more than I would have done for captain Lismahago, or Archy Macalpine, or any sinner upon earth—But for your worship, I would go through fire as well as water’—‘I do believe it, Humphry (said the ‘squire); but as you think it was your duty to save my life at the hazard of your own, I think it is mine to express the sense I have of your extraordinary fidelity and attachment—I insist upon your receiving this small token of my gratitude; but don’t imagine that I look upon this as an adequate recompence for the service you have done me—I have determined to settle thirty pounds a-year upon you for life; and I desire these gentlemen will bear witness to this my intention, of which I have a memorandum in my pocketbook.’
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

God knows, said my uncle Toby—his providence brings good out of every thing—and he avers, in his chronicle of King Alphonsus, who reduced Toledo, That in the year 1343, which was full thirty-seven years before that time, the secret of powder was well known, and employed with success, both by Moors and Christians, not only in their sea-combats, at that period, but in many of their most memorable sieges in Spain and Barbary—And all the world knows, that Friar Bacon had wrote expressly about it, and had generously given the world a receipt to make it by, above a hundred and fifty years before even Schwartz was born—And that the Chinese, added my uncle Toby, embarrass us, and all accounts of it, still more, by boasting of the invention some hundreds of years even before him— They are a pack of liars, I believe, cried Trim— —They are somehow or other deceived, said my uncle Toby, in this matter, as is plain to me from the present miserable state of military architecture amongst them; which consists of nothing more than a fosse with a brick wall without flanks—and for what they gave us as a bastion at each angle of it, 'tis so barbarously constructed, that it looks for all the world—Like one of my seven castles, an' please your honour, quoth Trim.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

“I'd heard of your exploits through Bertram, and thought probably you'd follow the bait contained in my letter to him.”
— from Average Jones by Samuel Hopkins Adams

He is mistaken if he thinks his treachery will give him a hold on your estates.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

o' balance, and his nose Gits barked ag'inst the mantel, while you hum Fer joy around the room, and churn your head Ag'inst the ceilin', and draw back and butt The plasterin' loose, and drop—behind the bed, Where never human-bein' ever putt Harm's hand on you, er ever truthful said He'd choked yer dern infernal wizzen shut!
— from The Old Soldier's Story: Poems and Prose Sketches by James Whitcomb Riley

The underwriters failed and went bankrupt, and the wreck came into the hands of your English Lloyd's.
— from The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers

And yet I have often said things to you that should have opened your eyes.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

Will you not send out against the pirates one, now an ex-consul, whom before he could yet properly hold office you elected against Sertorius?
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44). by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

In fact, we have reason to believe that the adventures of her characters are often not so much invented as remembered, the pranks and frolics [Pg 252] of her boys and girls being episodes from her own youthful experience.
— from Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

Mamma took care to keep her away from you now she thinks she has opened your eyes.
— from Forbidden Fruit: Luscious and exciting story, and More forbidden fruit; or, Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle by Anonymous