Had the late Mr. Darcy liked me less, his son might have borne with me better; but his father's uncommon attachment to me, irritated him I believe very early in life.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

And mark how, like a horseman true, Lord Marmion’s march I thus renew.
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

“Have you come here to libel me?”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Ah! hadst thou liked me less and loved me more, Through all those summer days of joy and rain, I had not now been sorrow’s heritor, Or stood a lackey in the House of Pain.
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

About half this length may be allowed for the middle breadth, from east to west, from Bassora to Suez, from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Wer fröhlich sein will sein Lebenlang / Lasse der Welt ihren tollen Gang —He who will be happy through life must leave the world alone in its own mad career.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But of the two triumphs, that of refuting a sophistical son and that of holding on a while longer to a state of being which, with all abatements, he enjoyed, Ralph deemed it no sin to hope the latter might be vouchsafed to Mr. Touchett.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Here the London Magazine had: "a pea-green coat, for instance, like the bridegroom."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

To various hooks and studs on the helmet and breast-plate are hung two leaden masses weighing about forty pounds each.
— from Under the Waves: Diving in Deep Waters by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Then he hung the lantern midway of this line.
— from Pee-Wee Harris on the Trail by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

I can't even ask you to marry me yet, and still because you must know it, because you have a heart that must tell you, it seems to me that it is only hypocritical to lock my lips.
— from The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

You can’t look me in the face and deny that you have been far happier this last month, and far less bored and cynical?”
— from A Houseful of Girls by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

“No treachery, old chap; Pete hasn’t sent you, has he, to lure me into the wood for another fight?
— from The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam by George Manville Fenn

Two of ye Gentlemen, do me but the honor To lead me to her: good my Lord, your leave too: Val.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 07 of 10 by John Fletcher

she added, suddenly changing her tone; "Let me look at it."
— from The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest by William Harrison Ainsworth

Well, I shall have to let Miss Seaton dine, after all—that's what it comes to, and this creature can take her down—it will be a little change for her.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 by Various

But I couldn't hear a word, only a horrid buzzing, so she had to let me off, and just tell me that the lady we were to call on was Mrs. Harvey Richmount Taylour.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

He then led me to a comfortable, leather-covered arm chair, and, after almost shoving me into its capacious depths, seated himself directly in front of me.
— from From Pillar to Post: Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book by John Kendrick Bangs