But I have yet more avoided receiving than sought occasions of giving, and moreover, according to Aristotle, it is more easy.,
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

— LADY P: Where? MOS: Marry, Where yet, if you make haste, you may apprehend, Rowing upon the water in a gondole, With the most cunning courtezan of Venice.
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

Had you made any resolution?' 'I know only two men whom I could have trusted to fulfil my conditions,' said Clara. 'Conditions?' 'Of course!
— from Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 2 by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

I don't believe I've heard you make a rhyme to-day," smiled Miss Dorothy.
— from Dawn by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

I propose to show how you may all reach it.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, December 1882 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle by Chautauqua Institution

"I don't remember ever having heard you make a remark like that about church before," remarked Kitty.
— from Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs

"Have you met a rich woman who wishes to marry me?"
— from The Bath Keepers; Or, Paris in Those Days, v.1 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume VII) by Paul de Kock

"Ha' ye made a' right at the bridge yonder, Maclachlan?" The young Chief's face supplied the answer.
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

"Tell us how you managed, Aunt Ri," urged Linda.
— from Talbot's Angles by Amy Ella Blanchard

“Why,” said Panchita McPherson, brutally, “your mother was in here Saturday night with her young man and regularly turned the town upside down.
— from Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

"Ef I hooks him, you make a run fer one of the guns, and then climb into the nearest tree.
— from A Boy of the Dominion: A Tale of Canadian Immigration by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton