I know more about them than you do, which you forget, and if Charles had taken you that motor drive—well, you’d have reached the house a perfect wreck.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

THE OLD MAN AND THE THREE YOUNG MEN.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

It is not that I care so much about the trousers, you know; you can always sew them up again for me.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

And I meditated a thousand thousand years, passionless, well aware of the Causes of all Things.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

It is for me to ask your pardon for being a fool for a moment, and thinking that years of constancy and devotion might have pleaded with you.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

That one bad style was leading to another--that the older men were more amusing than the younger--that Lord Houghton's breakfast-table showed gaps hard to fill--that there were fewer men one wanted to meet--these, and a hundred more such remarks, helped little towards a quicker and more intelligent activity.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

tell me, I beseech you, Needs there a school this modish art to teach you?
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

[ The time of Pope Joan (papissa Joanna) is placed somewhat earlier than Theodora or Marozia; and the two years of her imaginary reign are forcibly inserted between Leo IV. and Benedict III.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

I will confide this tale of misery and terror to you the day after our marriage shall take place; for, my sweet cousin, there must be perfect confidence between us.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Did not Mrs. Macartney mention all this to you?”
— from The House of Armour by Marshall Saunders

Deny her once more, and this to your heart.
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

After the battle the circumstances of this question in Maori chivalry having been fully considered by the elder warriors, it was decided that the sapling tree should, in this case, be held to be the true mataika , and that the young man who cut it down should always claim, without question, to have killed, or, as the natives say, "caught," the mataika of that battle.—
— from Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by Frederick Edward Maning

The two upper sections are called senior, the next two middle, and the two younger junior.
— from The Teacher Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

It occurs to me also that the young ladies might be kept a little more free of spiders’ webs; but in all these chapels, bats, mice, and spiders are troublesome.
— from The Humour of Homer and Other Essays by Samuel Butler

“When I welcomed your coming, I was still young and vigorous: you have taken from me each day some little of my strength, and you have ended by inflicting an illness upon me; already, thanks to you, my blood is less warm, my muscles less firm, and my feet less agile than before!
— from An Attic Philosopher in Paris — Complete by Émile Souvestre

“Item, to James Murray, merchant, for fyftene scoir sex elnis and aine half elne of blew claith to be gownis to fyftie ane aigeit men, according to the yeiris of his Majesteis age, at xl s. the elne Inde, vj c xiij li.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott

The last three mules and the two yaks from the Tsong-tso were in good condition.
— from Trans-Himalaya: Discoveries and Adventurers in Tibet. Vol. 2 (of 2) by Sven Anders Hedin