irresistibly : suddenly, in a moment . unwearð = unweorð unweaxen † not grown up, young .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
Be natural—but improve your natural gifts until you have approached the ideal, for we must strive after idealized nature, in fruit, tree, and speech.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein
“From all your half tipsy stories,” Raskolnikov observed harshly, “I am positive that you have not given up your designs on my sister, but are pursuing them more actively than ever.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
But you must not go unless your mother says you may.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
But, contrary to his expectation, Phalinus turned round and said: "I say that if you have one chance, one hope in ten thousand to wage a war with the king successfully, do not give up your arms.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon
“If you wished to preserve your good name, why did you not give up your—your ‘guardian,’ Totski, without all that theatrical posturing?” said Aglaya, suddenly a propos of nothing.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I shall not get up yet, but you will not need to watch me.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald
Very well, let it be supposed that you begin to-day instead, and in a day or two write me a note giving up your place.'
— from A Life's Morning by George Gissing
So now you must persevere; but do not give up your own judgment in anything.
— from Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 2 by Alfred Russel Wallace
You need not go unless you wish.
— from The Willoughby Captains by Talbot Baines Reed
Your independence caused a passing pain, But now, I thank you, I am feeling better; You'll never go upon your own again
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21 by Various
How do you know that it will not grow upon you; that, having thus commenced a downward career, you will not sink lower and lower, and so end by becoming a confirmed sot?”
— from Paul Kelver by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome
“Listen, Lucy,” he cried, “I will not go unless you tell me––and now may I go?”
— from Hidden Water by Dane Coolidge
Do nothing to aggravate or irritate him, but do not give up your friends of either sex; this is but to increase his inclination to petty tyranny, while it will in no sense lessen his jealousy.
— from A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
And I now give unto you a commandment to beware concerning yourselves, to give diligent heed to the words of eternal life.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Volume 1 Period 1. History of Joseph Smith, the Prophet by Smith, Joseph, Jr.
But you would not give up; you kept on.
— from The Trail of the Sword, Volume 3 by Gilbert Parker
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