Meanwhile he was quite willing to admit that the conversation of the elder lady was an advantage to the younger, who had a great deal to learn and would doubtless learn it better from Madame Merle than from some other instructors of the young.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

Though { you | he } will certainly fail, {you | he} may make the attempt.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

The god confronts them with eyes yet keener; his arrow, feathered with eyebeams, has reached its mark, straight between the monster’s eyes; but there is no more anger in his face than might mar the calm strength of a gardener clearing away the stone and thicket that make the constituent parts of Python.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

“To-morrow is Sunday,” said Devilsdust, “and the miners mean to say their prayers in Mowbray Church.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

v "Go then, my little Book, and show to all That entertain and bid thee welcome shall, What thou dost keep close shut up in thy breast; And wish what thou dost show them may be blest To them for good, may make them choose to be Pilgrims better, by far, than thee or me.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

‘Will you take my message to him?’ said I, quite eagerly.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

These on the left; and on the right the lower fifth, shell, and all the junior forms in order; while up the middle marched the three praepostors.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

He chose the time for both of these when M. de Luxembourg was not at Montmorency, in order to render it more manifest that he came there solely on my account.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Temper, ô faire Love, loves impetuous rage, Be my true Mistris still, not my faign'd Page; 15 I'll goe, and, by thy kinde leave, leave behinde Thee, onely worthy to nurse in my minde, Thirst to come backe; ô if thou die before, My soule from other lands to thee shall soare.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

I have merely mentioned this trait to convince the curious reader how exemplary Cortes acted, and of the necessity of being strict under similar circumstances.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

I am able of body, and do not lack friends so wholly as you may think; for the time may come that I may yet show myself more thankful than by mere words.”
— from The Abbot by Walter Scott

And what more monstrous than to affirm things to become better by losing all their good?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

The fundamental propositions of mathematics must, therefore, be fundamental propositions for all other sciences also.
— from Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken

Mr. Williams, who is now an aged man, more than fourscore, was the founder of the Province, and is held in great esteem by the people, who be of all sects and persuasions, as the Government doth not molest any in worshipping according to conscience; and hence you will see in the same neighborhood Anabaptists, Quakers, New Lights, Brownists, Antinomians, and Socinians,—nay, I am told there be Papists also.
— from Margaret Smith's Journal Part 1 from Volume V of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier by John Greenleaf Whittier

I pray you, gentlemen, begin, and point out some notable fashion wherewith a master might torment his servant.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

And yet this seems to have been a point of much more moment to them, and to which they were in a more peculiar manner, and much earlier called upon to give their attention, as the church service, upon the reformation, was performed in their own tongue, which is not the case to this day in those countries, where Latin still maintains that post.
— from A Discourse Being Introductory to his Course of Lectures on Elocution and the English Language (1759) by Thomas Sheridan

Us had some grief over dat, but he got a pass twice a week from his marster, Marse Tommie Sloan, to come to see me.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

She laughed at me, gently; saying she might very well be my mother; that a woman of forty committed a sort of crime against nature in loving a minor, and that she herself was incapable of such depravity.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He was something of a beau in society, and was the subject of some satirical articles which, in a spirit of fun, Miss Mary Todd (afterwards Mrs. Lincoln) had written and published in a local journal.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne

It may make them kind to each other, or it may make them nag each other into the mad-house, or it may make them shoot each other dead.
— from Mary Wollaston by Henry Kitchell Webster