Aristotle gives a slightly different account, namely, that this Cleomachus came not from Thessaly, but from Chalcis in Thrace, to the help of the Chalcidians in Eubœa; and that that was the origin of the song in vogue among the Chalcidians, 'Ye boys, who come of noble sires and beauteous are in face, Grudge not to give to valiant men the joy of your embrace: For Love that does the limbs relax combined with bravery In the Chalcidian cities has fame that ne'er shall die.'
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

“Doesn’t it jar on your ear?”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Henry Jenkins, of Yorkshire, England, lived to be a hundred and sixty-nine, and would probably have lived longer had not the king brought him to London, where luxuries hastened his death.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

I intend to have the calm judgment of your ears uninfluenced by your sight or any other sense.
— from Daybreak; A Romance of an Old World by James Cowan

Otherwise, in good truth, "moonshine and turn-out" at eleven, A.M., would be even worse than "tea and turn-out" at eight, P.M., which the "fervida juventus" of young England so loudly detests.
— from Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

Walworth; but I take it to represent y t of Justice) of y e 2nd:’ this idea, however, is without the slightest support either in reason, history, research, or heraldry.
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

I have directed it to you by your own name, as I direct this, remembering what you told me about your father making it a point of honor never to open your letters and parcels; and forbidding that ugly aunt Joanna of yours, ever to do so either.
— from Hide and Seek by Wilkie Collins

Of course, for me to have been jealous of you, even for an instant, was purely ridiculous."
— from The King of Alsander by James Elroy Flecker

'No, the Judaism of you English weighs upon my spirits.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

V ‘Jotin dear, just open your eyes a little.
— from Mashi, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

I entreat you will never suffer Mr. Wood to be a judge of your exigences.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift

[522] if y e said comissioners doe meete sooner), fully instructed to declare & make due proofe of their injuries, and to submite to y e judgmente of y e comissioners, in giving or receiving satisfaction; and y e said comissioners (not doubting but Uncass will either come him selfe, or send his deputies, in like maner furnished) promising to give a full hearing to both parties with equall justice, without any partiall respects, according to their allegations and profs.
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

From childhood she has loved him; she was bitterly jealous of you even before you went away.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson