Not even your skill can inform me where she is now.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Citizens must be induced to marry by the goodness of the government, not compelled to marry by law; you must not examine the effects of force, for the law which strives against the constitution has little or no effect; you should study what is done by the influence of public morals and by the natural inclination of the government, for these alone produce a lasting effect.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A wild burst of laughter broke forth, and Anthony, beaming, picked up his pig, acted as though he were dressing his wounds, and exclaimed: “Since you will not eat, you shall drink, nom de Dieu!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Would not even you, sir, do the same, in my place?”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“What is there that does NOT exceed your strength?” said Murazov.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

«Yo soy capitán bajo el estandarte del que, desde la muerte de Aben-Humeya, [91-2] titúlase legítimamente rey de los andaluces, Muley-Abdalá-Mahamud-Aben-Aboó, el cual, si no está ya sentado en el trono de Granada, es por
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

'Daughter mine,' replied the beldam, 'God who knoweth all knoweth 288 that thou wilt do exceeding well, and if for nought else, yet shouldst thou do it, thou and every other young woman, not to lose the time of your youth, for that to whoso hath understanding, there is no grief like that of having lost one's time.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“On what grounds is he so anxious?” “Oh, it’s not exactly... you see, since you’ve been ill I happen to have mentioned you several times....
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“‘Another of these magicians, by means of a fluid that nobody ever yet saw, could make the corpses of his friends brandish their arms, kick out their legs, fight, or even get up and dance at his will.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

they did not expect you so soon, I dare say.
— from The Manoeuvring Mother (vol. 1 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

Surely it would please her to think like that about Papa, to know that his temper was not quite real, and that your sin, when you sinned, was not quite real, so that not even your sin could separate you from God.
— from Mary Olivier: a Life by May Sinclair

“Do not excite yourself, sister,” said the queen of Naples, “this matter does not concern either you or the grande duchesse; you are neither of you queens .”
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

'Not even your slipper?
— from A Book of Sibyls: Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie

John Bull's Run. )— The field o' Lexin'ton, where England tried The fastest colors thet she ever dyed,— An' Concord Bridge, thet Davis, when he came, Found was the bee-line track to heaven an' fame,— Ez all roads be by natur', ef your soul Don't sneak thru shun-pikes so's to save the toll.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 52, February, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

To begin with, no woman could stand [239] the voyage; not even you, strong and vigorous as you are."
— from When Knighthood Was in Flower or, the Love Story of Charles Brandon and Mary Tudor the King's Sister, and Happening in the Reign of His August Majesty King Henry the Eighth by Charles Major

63:115 Ag 16 ‘17 320w + Ind 91:75 Jl 14 ‘17 50w “You can not wonder, after you read his pages and scan the photo-pictures with which they are illustrated, that Mr Mills asks: ‘Why not each year send thousands of school children through the national parks?’
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

Yet, in spite of the confidence which their presence might have been expected to diffuse among the mob, and in spite of the hopes of coming plenty which the rioters themselves announced, the royal party was not even yet safe from further attacks.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

"I'll never entertain your services if you are thus idle."
— from William Shakespeare as He Lived: An Historical Tale by Henry Curling

Such old trunks are covered with a whole world of mosses, lichens, fungiwood, sorrel, ferns, &c.; nay, even young shoots of maple, beeches, and tulip trees, had taken root on them.
— from Maximilian, Prince of Wied's, Travels in the Interior of North America, 1832-1834, part 1 by Wied, Maximilian, Prinz von