It is fit you should know, that the very moment when I was convinced of your being entirely devoted to me, when I saw you were infinitely worthy of all my love and acknowledgement, I imagined I could love you no more; I thought it time to leave off giving you any marks of affection; and I considered, that by your holy espousals you were now the peculiar care of Heaven, even in the quality of a wife.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

Nothing was left in it but a lump of gritty yellow soap in one corner of the kitchen window sill and a piece of flannel stained with a blue bag in another.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

H2 anchor Song—O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day Tune—“Invercauld's Reel, or Strathspey.” Choir.—O Tibbie, I hae seen the day, Ye wadna been sae shy; For laik o' gear ye lightly me, But, trowth, I care na by.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

For the love of God, your help!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For, by authority of Mr. Garrett, one knows that Jameson’s 600 were only 530 at most, when you count out his native drivers, etc.; and that the 530 consisted largely of “green” youths, “raw young fellows,” not trained and war-worn British soldiers; and I would have told Jameson that those lads would not be able to shoot effectively from horseback in the scamper and racket of battle, and that there would not be anything for them to shoot at, anyway, but rocks; for the Boers would be behind the rocks, not out in the open.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

It's a bleak and barren country there, not like this land of Goshen you've been used to.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

"But I am afraid since you took up that new line of goods you have overworked yourself."
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Because as soon as you determine to renew and restore within yourself the image and likeness of God, you will find peace, quiet, and repose."
— from The Duchess of Trajetto by Anne Manning

For love of God you should not bear me hard.
— from Chastelard, a Tragedy by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Then every one of these his men he investeth with his liveries, of green, yellow, or some other light wanton color....
— from Shakespeare the Boy With Sketches of the Home and School Life, Games and Sports, Manners, Customs and Folk-lore of the Time by W. J. (William James) Rolfe

I suppose you haf been killing lots of Germans? YOUNG OFF.
— from Four Short Plays by John Galsworthy

For the love of Gawd, your lordship!...
— from The Country House by John Galsworthy

'If you find the services of the Vengeance are not required at Leghorn or Genoa, you are to rejoin my flag at this anchorage, unless any increase of the smallpox in the Bellerophon should render it desirable for the latter to proceed to Malta to land the patients, in which case you will relieve Captain Baynes in the duties at Leghorn and direct him to join my flag as he passes to the southward.
— from Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Biddulph, Elizabeth Philippa, Baroness

An open crime, indeed, falls under our cognizance, and therefore under our judgment; for whatsoever falls under the authority of man to be punished, falls under the judgment of man to be censured, as an act contrary to the law of God; yet, when a censure is built upon the evil of the act which is obvious to the view, if we take a step farther to judge the heart and state, we leave the revealed rule of the law, and ambitiously erect a tribunal equal with God’s, and usurp a judicial power, pertaining only to the Supreme Governor of the world, and consequently pretend to be possessed of the perfection of omniscience, which is necessary to render him capable of the exercise of that sovereign authority: for it is in respect of his dominion that God hath the supreme right to judge; and in respect of his knowledge that he hath an incommunicable capacity to judge.
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock