The wretched votaress how sustain, Who mourns her child in ceaseless pain? Stay yet a while, my darling, stay, Nor fly to Yama's realm to-day.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Now follows, that you know young Fortinbras, Holding a weak supposal of our worth, Or thinking by our late dear brother’s death Our state to be disjoint and out of frame, Colleagued with this dream of his advantage, He hath not fail’d to pester us with message, Importing the surrender of those lands Lost by his father, with all bonds of law, To our most valiant brother.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Some also have an effigy of Judas, which the crew amuse themselves with keel-hauling and hanging by the neck from the yard-arms.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

Your noble friend, the young lady at your right, has the sharpest tooth,--long, thin, pointed, like an awl, like a needle; ha, ha!
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

218 Nestor indeed in Sophocles' Play, trying by his words to soothe exasperated Ajax, said to him mildly, "I blame you not, for though your words are bad,
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

And again, as she is a Lady of very fluent Elocution, you need not fear that your first Child will be born dumb, which otherwise you might have some Reason to be apprehensive of.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

With respect to the final cause of the young in such groups not passing through any metamorphosis, we can see that this would follow from the following contingencies: namely, from the young having to provide at a very early age for their own wants, and from their following the same habits of life with their parents; for in this case it would be indispensable for their existence that they should be modified in the same manner as their parents.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Negotiations were set on foot, but their only result was the assiento contract, or the privilege of supplying the colonies with negroes for thirty years, and of sending once a year a vessel, limited both as to tonnage and value of cargo, to trade with Mexico, Peru, or Chili.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

This precaution is necessary, for though you know it not, you are under the command of vulgar prejudices: The Business on which I must be employed this night, might startle you from its singularity, and lower me in your opinion.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

Once when he was conversing with a youth, he asked him if he felt; and as he said that he did, “Why is it then,” said Cleanthes, “that I do not feel that you feel?”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But he's got a contract now for three years, and so she seems to be resigning herself, and she has a maid, I believe.
— from Sisters by Kathleen Thompson Norris

Among the latter was not forgotten the youthful stranger, who had so well defended the barriers of the Rue Richelieu.
— from The Knickerbocker, Vol. 10, No. 3, September 1837 by Various

At one moment she thought it would be so natural for that young woman to come home and take a house in New York—the Rossiters’, for instance, which had an elegant conservatory and was just round the corner from her own; at another she couldn’t conceal her surprise at the girl’s not marrying some member of one of the great aristocracies.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James

“His cannot be a new face to you.”
— from The Parisians — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

"You must not feel that you are being hustled into this thing," he said.
— from Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

“You may smile, and look incredulous, signor,” were the words that first met the ears of the English nobleman, from the young countess, in Italy’s sweetest tone; “but since you deserted us for Bologna, a living likeness has appeared of your beautiful Améle.”
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

If you have faith, faith in God, faith in the Saviour, faith in things that are true and pure, you need never fear that your house of life will be broken into by burglars.
— from The Children's Six Minutes by Bruce S. (Bruce Simpson) Wright

You will not forget that you have a room here, for we will not hear a word about the Rue de l'Homme Armé.
— from Les Misérables, v. 5/5: Jean Valjean by Victor Hugo

"And further," added Tarzan, "you need not fear that your pride will suffer, Professor Porter, for you will be able to pay the Canler person what you owe him the moment you reach home.
— from Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Instruction should avoid such temporary structures as much as possible, and when used they should be only used for the day, and not for the year, because of the danger of building up an apperceptive centre in the child’s mind that will not harmonize with the true apperceptive centre required by the civilization.
— from Report of the Committee of Fifteen Read at the Cleveland Meeting of the Department of Superintendence, February 19-21, 1884, with the Debate by William Torrey Harris