Although there are millions out of employment, yet it is almost impossible to find just the right man in almost any department of life, and yet everywhere we see the advertisement: "Wanted—A Man." Rousseau, in his celebrated essay on education, says; "According to the order of nature, men being equal, their common vocation is the profession of humanity; and whoever is well educated to discharge the duty of a man can not be badly prepared to fill any of those offices that have a relation to him.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

This earth, strewed with stones; and that, planted with delicious fruit trees?" 8 And Adam said to Eve, "Look at your eyes, and at mine, which before beheld angels praising in heaven; and they too, without ceasing.
— from The First Book of Adam and Eve by Rutherford Hayes Platt

Among the Latin heroes, Godfrey of Bouillon and Frederic Barbarossa could alone achieve the passage of the Lesser Asia; yet even their success was a warning; and in the last and most experienced age of the crusades, every nation preferred the sea to the toils and perils of an inland expedition.
— 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

I have looked at you enough.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

It’s such an obvious lie and you expect me to believe it!
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

You devote all your care, you tell me, to engraving in your memory those ideas which contribute to the happiness of life; and you entreat me at the same time to send you a simple abridgment and abstract of my ideas on the heavenly phænomena, in order that you may without difficulty preserve the recollection of them.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

If you hang back, we will raise such a 'larum about your ears that you shan't know that your wife's your own for a month to come!'
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

as long as you escape successfully.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Emerson, the younger of the two, had just broken his Unitarian fetters, and was looking out around him like a young eagle longing for light.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

"How long are your English friends going to stay?"
— from Her Lord and Master by Martha Morton

Madam, return unto the court again: That sly inveigling Frenchman we'll exile, Or lose our lives; and yet ere that day come
— from The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Christopher Marlowe

But in this the comparison between them runs, as the scholiasts call it, upon all-four; which, by the bye, is upon one or two legs more than some of the best of Homer’s can pretend to;—namely, That the one raises a sum, and the other a laugh at your expence, and thinks no more about it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Socrates answered, “When you blame those who obey the laws, because they are subject to be abrogated, you do the same thing as if you laughed at your enemies for keeping themselves in a good posture of defence during the war, because you might tell them that the peace will one day be made: and thus you would condemn those who generously expose their lives for the service of their country.
— from The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Xenophon

I think when you look at your engine you’ll find something wrong with it.
— from The Brighton Boys at Chateau-Thierry by James R. Driscoll

But I—whom you have sometimes complained of a little for my coldness—had I not looked above your eyes, and put my hands behind me, I should have clung to you, dear, I was afraid, and never have allowed you to go as you are now going, and made you feel that I am not the perfect woman that you describe to me, as me.
— from Double Trouble; Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Herbert Quick

It makes you lose your logic and your English good sense.
— from The Pope, the Kings and the People A History of the Movement to Make the Pope Governor of the World by a Universal Reconstruction of Society from the Issue of the Syllabus to the Close of the Vatican Council by William Arthur

As you sit there I can see sometimes the colour come up over your face, and your lips part a little, and your eyes soften, while your fingers lie idle on your work.
— from A Search For A Secret: A Novel. Vol. 1 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

M. Gustave Flourens published a letter from his prison suggesting that the people should choose as their leader a young energetic Democrat—that is to say himself.
— from Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere

There won't be any scars that will last and your eyes—why, you protected them marvelously, and they only need resting.
— from The Camp Fire Girls in the Outside World by Margaret Vandercook