My mother also made a slip before me, and then yours did the same before she married your dad!
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

How I wish I could see you this lovely morning, and tell you all that has happened since I left home!
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Ay, thus far let him learn to dare, when first Weaned from his mother, and his mouth at times Yield to the supple halter, even while yet Weak, tottering-limbed, and ignorant of life.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

In December came a letter from the irrepressible brother-in-law, Aaron McLean: "As to your raspberry 'spec,' I regret to tell you it has 'gone up.'
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Thus in the Böhmer-wald Mountains all the young fellows of the village assemble after sunset on some height, especially at a cross-road, and crack whips for a while in unison with all their strength.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Catherine accepted this kindness with gratitude, and they continued as they were for three minutes longer, when Isabella, who had been talking to James on the other side of her, turned again to his sister and whispered, “My dear creature, I am afraid I must leave you, your brother is so amazingly impatient to begin; I know you will not mind my going away, and I dare say John will be back in a moment, and then you may easily find me out.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Yes, I replied, and he will be a good man (which is my answer to your question); for he is good who has a good soul.
— from The Republic by Plato

As she went up stairs to get ready, Mrs. Bennet followed her, saying, "I am quite sorry, Lizzy, that you should be forced to have that disagreeable man all to yourself.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

However trivial it may appear to you who are not a Mason, yet I assure you that it is one of the most honourable appointments that they could have conferred.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

It is evident that you no longer love me, and that you are only bound to me by the fear of causing some great calamity if you desert me.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

In the United States, 1823 is historically memorable as the year in which President Monroe, in his annual message to Congress, enunciated the so-called Monroe Doctrine, which has since been the keynote of American foreign policy.
— from The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

I was about to say that so much depends upon a first impression that it is by all means advisable that you should appear before Mlle. de Beaumesnil in your most attractive guise, so you may fascinate and magnetise her, so to speak.
— from Pride: One of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

My advice to you is to come to the rose-garden as soon as possible, and see the roses before they fade out of all recognition!
— from The Hoyden by Duchess

I know that in your conduct you are guided by these principles, more than is common in the fashionable world; but yet if this melancholy dispensation of Providence should cause you to pay more attention than you have done to “the things which pertain to your everlasting peace,” this would be a happy result.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

The Watervliet Society has also a branch at Philadelphia, consisting of twelve colored women, who live together in one house under the leadership of an old woman, who was moved about twenty years ago to leave this society and go to Philadelphia to preach among her people.
— from The Communistic Societies of the United States From Personal Visit and Observation by Charles Nordhoff

Trouble only a few years at most, and then you can go up on the other side of the grave, and say: "O Lord, I kept the marital secret!
— from The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage

but forgive me for asking you all these questions, which must appear to you indiscreet."
— from The Border Rifles: A Tale of the Texan War by Gustave Aimard

But now, my good friend, give her the bridal kiss, which is probably not the first, embrace her once more, and then you belong to me, until that happy day when we enter Stuttgardt.
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff