It is impossible for you, in another city, to know exactly when it will be convenient for your friend to have you visit her, unless she tells you, and that will, of course, be a special invitation.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

THE BORE: Sir! CYRANO: Its hue Unwholesome seems to you?
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

Come, let you and I take him in our arms, and carry him up stairs through your private door.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

"And I suppose she said she wouldn't—and ye won't take her unless she tells ye.
— from From the Valley of the Missing by Grace Miller White

Mary had scarcely left the room in which Sir Henry Ashwoode was seated, when he perceived Blarden sauntering among the trees by the window, with his usual swagger; the young man put on his hat and walked quickly forth to join him; as soon as he had come up with him, Blarden turned, and anticipating him, said,— "Well, I have spoken out, and I think she understands me too; at any rate, if she don't, it's no fault of mine.
— from The Cock and Anchor by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

He is so big that he usually smothers the young ones that belong in the nest.
— from The Children's Book of Birds by Olive Thorne Miller

The disgraceful failure of every military operation His Prussian Majesty has undertaken since the year 1791 has destroyed the reputation of the Prussian army; and the duplicity and versatility of his Cabinet put an end to all confidence and good faith.—
— from William Pitt and the Great War by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Ah! you people never guess the infinite woe we dogs suffer in new homes, under strange tyrannies; you never heed how we shrink from unfamiliar hands, and shudder at unfamiliar voices, how lonely we feel in unknown places, how acutely we dread harshness, novelty, and scornful treatment.
— from Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

The prompt attention of the doctor had undoubtedly saved the young man's life.
— from Guy Garrick by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

The chest ought to be well out, therefore, the shoulders thrown back, and the head up, so that you will not be crowding all the veins that send blood into your head by letting your neck sink into your shoulders.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

She sacrificed him, with her eyes open, for you and Nellie—gave him up so that you could have this farm.”
— from Dust by Marcet Haldeman-Julius

“Hey, Uncle Shorty,” they yells in chorus, “come play Wild West with us!”
— from Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford

Hydrogen, under suitable treatment, yields the greatest obtainable cold, as oxygen and hydrogen together yield the greatest heat.
— from A Hundred Years Hence: The Expectations of an Optimist by T. Baron Russell