“Well, let me at least embrace you and say goodbye, you strange fellow!” cried the prince, looking with gentle reproach at Rogojin, and advancing towards him.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Certainly, wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity; and single men, though they be many times more charitable, because their means are less exhaust, yet, on the other side, they are more cruel and hard-hearted (good to make severe inquisitors), because their tenderness is not so oft called upon.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Well, but Claude; You may at least eat your supper here?
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Dryf out the fantasyes yow with-inne; 1615 And trusteth me, and leveth eek your sorwe,
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

Many a long evening you will spend pleasantly with Defoe; and then, perchance, after a fresh reading of the thrice and four times wonderful adventures of Robinson Crusoe, you will turn to the romance of "Peter Wilkins."
— from The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins, Complete (Volumes 1 and 2) by Robert Paltock

v, p. 309,) was milked three times a day for ten years running, during the space of nine months, at least, every year; and was never seen, during all that period, but in very excellent order, although she had no other feeding than was given to the rest of the Cows, some of which were very low every winter, when they gave no milk at all.
— from Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey

"But of course if you don't mind a little expense you can Marconi to Lady Loveland from the ship." "Of course," assented Lady Loveland's son, who would not have thought of the attention had it not been suggested to him.
— from Lord Loveland Discovers America by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Then it said, ‘Master, that is the house we are going to, and you are not a poor man any longer: even your name is new.’
— from The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Let me at least entreat you to avoid him!”
— from A Strange Story — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

1615 Dryf out the fantasyes yow with-inne; And trusteth me, and leveth eek your sorwe, Or here my trouthe, I wol not live til morwe.
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 (of 7) — Boethius and Troilus by Geoffrey Chaucer

I should much like to know what my readers of both sexes who have been married at least eight years think of this specimen of Ibsen’s ‘realism.’
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

"I should esteem it a great favor if you would give me that young lady's address," I said, whereupon she unlocked a drawer in her writing-table and took therefrom a thick, leather-bound book which she consulted for a few minutes, at last exclaiming: "Yes, here it is—'Lydia Moreton, daughter of Sir Hamilton Moreton, K.C.M.G., Whiston Grange, Doncaster.'"
— from The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love by William Le Queux

“You’re not making me any less embarrassed, you know.”
— from Makers by Cory Doctorow