|| VII 16 Epi de tên auxêtikên êdê metabantes dynamin auto touth' hypomnêsômen prôton, hôs hyparchei men kai autê tois kyoumenois hôsper kai hê threptikê; all' hoion hypêretides tines eisi tênikauta tôn proeirêmenôn dynameôn, ouk en hautais echousai to pan kyros.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

I have decided never to take a cocktail again, and I know I'll never again fall in love—I couldn't—you've been too much a part of my days and nights to ever let me think of another girl.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

feats of mental dexterity; and the opposite are to be called wise, even although, in the words of the proverb, they know neither how to read nor how to swim; and to them, as to men of sense, authority is to be committed.
— from Laws by Plato

The mother, out of pure indulgence, took me up, and put me towards the child, who presently seized me by the middle, and got my head into his mouth, where I roared so loud that the urchin was frighted, and let me drop, and I should infallibly have broke my neck, if the mother had not held her apron under me.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Reader, I think proper, before we proceed any farther together, to acquaint thee that I intend to digress, through this whole history, as often as I see occasion, of which I am myself a better judge than any pitiful critic whatever; and here I must desire all those critics to mind their own business, and not to intermeddle with affairs or works which no ways concern them; for till they produce the authority by which they are constituted judges, I shall not plead to their jurisdiction.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Are these the real names for my doodle and your Fanny, and what does “fuck” mean, my darling aunt?
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

They fitted perfectly—the idol was just the size of my doll Ailine.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

Would you believe me, my dear, at the Garatynskys’ I was expected to dress for lunch as well as for dinner, so that, like an actress, I received a special allowance for my wardrobe in addition to my salary.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

She loves me dearly, and her affection has often been a refuge for my sorrows.
— from Tales of My Time, Vol. 1 (of 3) Who Is She? by William Pitt Scargill

She won the competition for the doors of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, for which there were many distinguished aspirants.
— from The Sculpture and Mural Decorations of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Art of the Panama-Pacific international exposition by Stella G. S. (Stella George Stern) Perry

Besides, you're spoiling all my dogs, a-honeying of 'em up the way you do."
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough

There were 19 Marines dead and 32 wounded.
— from Top of the Ladder: Marine Operations in the Northern Solomons by John C. Chapin

—Soon did the spot become my other home, My dwelling, and my out-of-doors abode.
— from Dorothy Wordsworth: The Story of a Sister's Love by Edmund Lee

“Do you expect to sit back and see me do all the work?” demanded Jim.
— from The Mercer Boys at Woodcrest by Capwell Wyckoff

But grease and filth form his delight; and he sparkles under a liberal coat of the much-loved butter, which is unsparingly applied when proceeding to the perpetration of the most dastardly and inhuman deeds.
— from The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis, Sir

Domains Getting where you want to go can often be one of the more difficult aspects of using networks.
— from Zen and the Art of the Internet by Brendan P. Kehoe

Close bonds of mutual dependence and solidarity interlink all created beings, especially men.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

Had we not met M. Darpent at the Hotel Rambouillet, and was he not a fit companion for us? ‘Most assuredly,’ said Eustace; ‘but certain sentiments may arise from companionship which in her case were better avoided.’
— from Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge