that is, I don't mean that I am only acquainted with footmen, I have a footman of my own, your Excellency, and they are always laughing ... the asses!
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The sitting began; and Harriet, smiling and blushing, and afraid of not keeping her attitude and countenance, presented a very sweet mixture of youthful expression to the steady eyes of the artist.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

If history had a chapter with which he thought himself familiar, it was the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; yet so little has labor to do with knowledge that these bare playgrounds of the lecture system turned into green and verdurous virgin forests merely through the medium of younger eyes and fresher minds.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

If you will stay I will give you a house and an estate, but no one (heaven forbid) shall keep you here against your own wish, and that you may be sure of this I will attend tomorrow to the matter of your escort.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

God will not abandon you to the malice of your enemies.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The great gulf of Tophet, and Tenth of August, opened itself at the magic of your eloquent voice; and lo now, it will not close at your voice!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I heard of the difference of sexes; and the birth and growth of children; how the father doated on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child; how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge; how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge; of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To meet that retort, I must beg you to listen to certain things, which I should never have said in his presence, except for your utter want of feeling towards me, or your extraordinary ingratitude.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

We felt as though our situation was a call upon our superiors to give us occasional relaxations, and to make our yoke easier.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

At a later stage the ovum becomes more or less bell-shaped or hemispherical, and encloses within its concavity a mass of yolk elements.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

"From--what do you mean, from Mr. Patterson?" "A letter came to my office yesterday evening, after I had left, which was placed in my hands this morning.
— from A Master of Deception by Richard Marsh

Tom slipped into a seat beside her upon the wide, old-fashioned sofa, which was just the place for one of those cosy twilight chats with mother, which boys especially love so much, and the memory of which gleams, star-like, through the mists of years, exerting even far greater influence than she dreams of upon their lives.
— from Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir And Other Stories for Boys and Girls by Mary Catherine Crowley

“Don’t smile too much on young Evan,” he said.
— from Derelicts by William John Locke

But you must remember, gentlemen of the jury, what happened in the time of the Thirty, that the mistakes of your enemies may make you legislate better for yourselves.
— from The Orations of Lysias by Lysias

If you win the lady, you gain security; you build up a fortress round your fortunes which not all the malice of your enemies can ever batter down.
— from Arabella Stuart: A Romance from English History by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

"He has fortified the city strongly, according to my opinion, your excellency."
— from Boscobel; or, the royal oak: A tale of the year 1651 by William Harrison Ainsworth

“ Caith-na-brogueen ,” replied the fairy piper; “a tune I composed in memory of your escape from the cat; a tune that will soon become a favourite all over Munster.”
— from The Irish Penny Journal, Vol. 1 No. 44, May 1, 1841 by Various

And I'll do you one piece of Service more, Marplot , I'll take care that Sir Francis make you Master of your Estate.
— from The Busie Body by Susanna Centlivre

If I have not forfeited your friendship, my dear Mrs. Sumner, write to me, and pour its healing balm into the wounded mind of your ELIZA WHARTON.
— from The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel: Founded on Fact by Hannah Webster Foster