“I will Madam: but let me, at least, make a merit of my obedience,-allow me to hope that you will, in future, be less averse to trusting yourself for a few moments alone with me” I was surprised at the freedom of this request:
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Give me a little more, and you may have a sip too, but only a sip; you must not get used to it, my poor, dear child."
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Leave me alone, leave me alone; there is too much of life in me already!"
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

After dinner we went for a walk, and the three friends understanding my aims left me alone with the intractable girl, who resisted my caresses in a manner which almost made me give up the hope of taming her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as eternity too.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

It was a man, a living man, a black Indian fisherman, a poor devil who no doubt had come to gather what he could before harvest time.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Thus as his old sense of equality with the gods slowly vanishes, he resigns at the same time the hope of directing the course of nature by his own unaided resources, that is, by magic, and looks more and more to the gods as the sole repositories of those supernatural powers which he once claimed to share with them.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

[6042] Tam apta nuptiis quam bruma messibus , as welcome to a young woman as snow in harvest, saith Nevisanus: Et si capis juvenculam, faciet tibi cornua : marry a lusty maid and she will surely graft horns on thy head.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She made a love match and between 1816 and 1826 bore five children, each of whom resembled and may actually have had a different father: 1st.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

His poetry is always musical, and, like music, appeals almost exclusively to the emotions.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

But Lane reached home, and got into the house, where he sat at the table with his mother and Lorna, making a pretense of eating, and went upstairs and into his bed without any recurrence of the symptoms that had alarmed him.
— from The Day of the Beast by Zane Grey

"Yes; we shall have to rub our feet well, Bill, and make as little mess as we can in going in and out."
— from Sturdy and Strong; Or, How George Andrews Made His Way by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"Oh, Richard," she said, laying her head upon his breast, "if you'll only forgive me and love me again, I'll make up for the past by being the best wife that ever a man had!" "Nay, my dear, you've got no call to talk like that.
— from For John's Sake, and Other Stories. by Annie Frances Perram

Oh, give her to me a little, Mary Ann.
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

But if it is best—They could not take me, and Jaqueline said she would be like mamma, and love me and care for me.
— from A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas

You may think, perhaps, that a little tea or a little punch now and then, a diet a little more costly, clothes a little finer, and a little more entertainment now and then, can be no great matter; but remember what Poor Richard says, “many a little makes a mickle”; and further, “beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship”; and again, “Who dainties love shall beggars prove”; and moreover, “fools make feasts and wise men eat them.”
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 by Charles Herbert Sylvester