"You are growing more like your father every day, Georgey; and you're growing quite a man, too," he said; "would you like to go to school?" "Oh, yes, please, I should like it very much," the boy answered, eagerly.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Refuse to be my wife, and you limit yourself for ever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

you darling Charles, I love you for ever; but get up, it is now my turn to give you a taste of the exquisite pleasure you have given me.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

So banish from your mind all doubt and uneasiness; let a generous confidence in me take place; and let me see it does, by your cheerfulness in this day's solemn business; and then I will love you for ever!
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

"You have known that I love you for ever so long," she confessed to him, and she blushed painfully, and felt that her lips were twitching with shame.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Having begun to love you, I love you for ever—in all changes, in all disgraces, because you are yourself.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

I want to love you for ever.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

(It may be noted that in 1811 Governor Gore left York for England, on leave of absence, and was away during the four eventful years that followed.)
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Mason will not defy me; nor, knowing it, will he hurt me—but, unintentionally, he might in a moment, by one careless word, deprive me, if not of life, yet for ever of happiness.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

No, Antony, take the lot; But, first or last, your fine Egyptian cookery Shall have the fame.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“But for her it would cost me nought to leave you for ever, and all my kith and kin, and—the mother that bore me, and—my playmates, and my little native town.
— from The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade

If you had not spoken," he [Pg 136] said: "I would be all right; but now I must leave you for ever.
— from Poets and Dreamers: Studies and translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory

"For my lawsuits, yes, for every single one of them, I have, to put it plainly, advocates who quarrel to death.
— from The Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830 by Stendhal

Rather than be general, like you, follow everybody;
— from William Wycherley [Four Plays] by William Wycherley

By confounding you with a variety of projects, they perplex your resolutions, and lead you from executing what is in your power, by engaging you in schemes not reducible to practice.
— from The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant Being a collection of select pieces from our best modern writers, calculated to eradicate vulgar prejudices and rusticity of manners, improve the understanding, rectify the will, purify the passions, direct the minds of youth to the pursuit of proper objects, and to facilitate their reading, writing, and speaking the English language with elegance and propriety by John Hamilton Moore

Now I'm much afraid that all is up, and she 'll never love me any more—poor Leuchy!' 'Hollyhock, you really have been exceedingly naughty, but your conduct to Leucha after her terrible fright has been splendid ; and although I greatly fear, knowing Leucha's character, that you will find it difficult to get back her love, yet there are many others in the school, my child, who love you, and who will love you for ever.' 'Yes; but it was Leuchy I wanted,' said Hollyhock.
— from Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief by L. T. Meade

I meant to run away and leave you for ever and ever!"
— from The Amateur Gentleman by Jeffery Farnol