Till many years over thy head return: So maist thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop Into thy Mothers lap, or be with ease Gatherd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature: This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To witherd weak & gray; thy Senses then Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must forgoe, To what thou hast, and for the Aire of youth Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reigne A melancholly damp of cold and dry To waigh thy spirits down, and last consume The Balme of Life.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Their friends are allowed to give them either meat, drink, or clothes, so they are of their proper colour; but it is death, both to the giver and taker, if they give them money; nor is it less penal for any freeman to take money from them upon any account whatsoever: and it is also death for any of these slaves (so they are called) to handle arms.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

And the modern doctrine of commercial despotism means that we shall not find it at all.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Let me go in to see my husband, if you please, Mr. Audley, unless you wish to detain me in this gloomy place until I catch my death of cold.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

As they persisted resolutely to assemble, openly, at the Bull and Mouth, before mentioned, the soldiers, and other officers, dragged them from thence to prison, till Newgate was [336] filled with them, and multitudes died of close confinement, in that and other jails.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

The change that came upon me was indeed great; my pride vanished, my dislike of Christ disappeared, all opposition to the truth ceased, and I felt a wonderful love to Him who first loved me, and who gave Himself for me.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

She would be deserted and reduced to ruin, and I should catch my death of cold in some broker’s shop.”
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Men who are masters of themselves and of others, men who understand the management and privilege of passion, become the most despised of creatures in such systems of thought, because they are confounded with the vicious and licentious; and the speed of mankind's elevation thus gets to be determined by humanity's slowest vessels.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"That is a question which Mr. Darcy only can answer."
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

But in my dreams of Combray (like those architects, pupils of Viollet-le-Duc, who, fancying that they can detect, beneath a Renaissance rood-loft and an eighteenth-century altar, traces of a Norman choir, restore the whole church to the state in which it probably was in the twelfth century) I leave not a stone of the modern edifice standing, I pierce through it and 'restore' the Rue des Perchamps.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Liverpool had already [504] expressed his wish to be well out of the war, although expecting decided military successes, and convinced that the terms as now reduced would be very unpopular in England; "but I feel too strongly the inconvenience of a continuance not to make me desirous of concluding it at the expense of some popularity."
— from Sea Power in its Relations to the War of 1812 Volume 2 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

[Pg 103] contract the hypodermic habit, and any drug habit developed in the alcoholic is the most difficult of cases to deal with successfully.
— from Habits that Handicap: The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles Barnes Towns

He praised the late Mr. Duncombe, of Canterbury, as a pleasing man. '
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

My daily observations convinced me that the epidemy was not caught by approach, unless that approach was accompanied by an inhaling of the breath, or by touching the infected person; I therefore had a separation made across the gallery, inside of my house, between the kitchen and dining parlour, of the width of three feet, which is sufficiently wide to prevent the inhaling the breath of a [178] person.
— from An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa by Shabeeny, Abd Salam, active 1820

[608] G. Maspero, Dawn of Civilisation , p. 733.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

R. O George Brown Brinston’s Corners Matilda Dundas O Charles Lock Brisbane Erin Wellington, S. R.
— from List of Post Offices in Canada, with the Names of the Postmasters ... 1873 by Canada. Post Office Department

Marriage, doctrines of Catholicity and Protestantism with regard to, compared, 136 ; importance of guarding the sanctity of, 139 ; not admitted as a sacrament by Protestantism, 139 ; different conduct of Catholicity and Protestantism with regard to, 140 .
— from Protestantism and Catholicity compared in their effects on the civilization of Europe by Jaime Luciano Balmes

"I have brought my dessert, of course.
— from Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach