No one going from America to Europe in the last year could fail to notice the wide difference between the mind of nations long at war and that of a nation just entering.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

"Miss Fairlie will keep your secret, and not let you come to any harm.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Having been asked to lunch or dine with a lady whom you know but slightly you should leave your card whether you accepted the invitation or not, within three days if possible, or at least within a week, of the date for which you were invited.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

“If it’s dry,” said his mother with a laugh, “you can leave Isabel alone to water it!
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

"At least you can't think worse things of me than you say!"
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

Most large systems let you chat with many users simultaneously.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

O, in this love, you love your child so ill That you run mad, seeing that she is well.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

‘And yet I always liked you, Copperfield!’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Caía la flor bajo los balcones, apresurábase el caballero a levantarla, y cuando con una amable sonrisa iba a saludar a la dueña, recibía en el rostro un torrente de agua que le enceguecía y ahogaba, desgracia que él trataba de disimular diciendo con toda galantería: —¡Cómo ha de ser [11] !
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Her cheeks are like yon crimson gem, The pride of all the flowery scene, Just opening on its thorny stem; An' she has twa sparkling roguish een.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

"Then lay yer course north by northwest three p'ints and ye'll hit the Red Star plumb in the eye—if ye don't miss it," and the miner laughed coarsely.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks; Or, The Secret of Ruby Mountain by Frank Gee Patchin

Margaret, love, you can run upstairs—there is time yet—if you do not wish to see her.”
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

Young chief say no, and Winnebeg love young chief.”
— from Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago: a tale of Indian warfare by Major (John) Richardson

Do you think he would like your crooked ways about Mr. Eric?'
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey

Then you grow old and can work no longer; your children abandon you, because you have brought them up badly, and because they have the same passions and the same vanities as yourself.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

I don’t want to run the risk of letting you catch me round the neck as you did the other day.
— from Sunshine Bill by William Henry Giles Kingston

With this game leg, you can see me going on the stage as a Russian dancer, can't you?
— from Carter, and Other People by Don Marquis

“As for saving your life—” “You certainly did, and the doc will say the same thing.
— from Signal in the Dark by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

If you don’t want to look you can shut your eyes.
— from Nine Thousand Miles on a Pullman Train An Account of a Tour of Railroad Conductors from Philadelphia to the Pacific Coast and Return by Milton M. Shaw

“Well, at least, you can inform the Devashung of my arrival, and ask the Government to send notice of it to Gyangtse.”
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin